For the 54th edition of the festival, Les Rencontres de la photographie and the LUMA foundation are once again offering the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award, a prize to help publish a book model. Initiated in 2015 and endowed with a production budget of €25,000, this award is open to professional photographers and artists using photography, upon proposal of a book model that has never been published. Special attention will be paid to experimental and innovative editorial forms.

The members of the jury, Marta Gili - directrice from l’École nationale supérieure de la photographie d'Arles, Matthieu Humery - Fondation LUMA et Christoph Wiesner - directeur des Rencontres d’Arles have designated the 10 pre-selected projects :

→ Gauchito Querido, Amparo Baquerizas, 2023

→ Could Be the Last, Ibrahim Cissé, 2023w

→ Apolis, Arash Fayez, 2023

→ Beyond the Mountains, Maki Hayashida, 2023

→ On War and Other Trivialities, Gena Kagermanov, 2023

→ HUN, Julia Mejnertsen, 2022-2023

→ The Dingo's Noctuary, Judith Nangala Crispin, 2023

→ Tierra Sin Agua, Ana Rodríguez Heinlein, 2023

→ Some, Jansen van Staden, 2023

→ White Water, Charles Xelot, 2023