Since 2015, the Rencontres d'Arles has offered a prize to help publish a dummy book. 

Endowed with a €25,000 production budget, the award is open to any photographer or emerging artist using photography on the basis of a proposal for a book that has never been published. Experimental and innovative editorial forms receive special attention.

This year, 140 works from 32 countries were submitted.

The projects pre-selected for the 2021 Dummy Book Award are :

MARIO CAPRIOTTI with Sedimenti
GUILLAUME CHAMAHIAN with Nom de code César
FLORENCIA GRISANTI & TITO GONZALEZ GARCIA with Mapuñuke, leaf witnesses
YOUQINE LEFÈVRE with The Land of Promises
THOMAS MAILAENDER with Life and adventures of a silver woman on planet earth
DILLON MARSH with Diamond Coast
ROBERTO MOLINA TONDOPÓ with Tránsito
ROMAIN MONCET with Collection
MOE SUZUKI with Sokohi
LUCREZIA ZANARDI with Present Traces of a Past Existence: A Photographic Research
MARTINA ZANIN with I Made Them Run Away