Self Publish Riga 2018 winners announced!

We're excited to announce the winners of the Self Publish Riga 2018 dummy contest! Congratulations to the prizewinners and Top Ten and a big thanks to all those who submitted their books - we received over 100 entries from 26 countries of the world. The complete shortlist of selected is on view at the ISSP Gallery as part of Self Publish Riga 2018 & Riga Photomonth until June 3 (the full list will also be published online soon).

First Prize - "Daffodil" by Bahadir Aksan (Turkey) 

The winner of the first prize will have their book published in colaboration with Kaunas Photography GalleryPrinting house KOPA and Antalis 

Jury Special Mention - "Y Minsk" by Alexey Naumchik (Belarus)

Best of Baltic - "Olga" by Zanda Puče (Latvia)

The author of the best dummy from the Baltic states will be awarded a free place at the International Summer School of Photography 2018 

Top 10:

“Treasure Island” by Aleksandra Kubos (Poland/Gemany)
“Eating Magma” by Elena Aya Bundurakis (Greece)
“RANDOM” by Jose Luis Carrasco (Spain)
“Simplex” by Ksenia Sidorova (Russia)
“An essay on the concave city corner” by Stijn Van der Linden (Belgium)
“Smoke” by Theo Elias (Sweden)
“Rhome” by Valentina Piccinni and Jean-Marc Caimi (Italy)

Full shortlist:

"Scum" by Agata Kalinowska (Poland)
"V.V.P. cult" by Alexander Chernavskiy (Russian Federation)
"Mzensk" by Anastasia Tsayder (Russian Federation)
"Hiding in the Sun" by Andris Fedotovs (Latvia)
"A Love Research" by Annemarija Gulbe (Latvia)
"The Space of a Feebleness" by Anton Vinogradov (Russian Federation)
"Triny " by Arimasa Fukukawa (Japan)
"Waiting Room" by Burak Ciritci (Turkey)
"Sinking Stone" by Cristiano Volk (Italy)
"M." by Ekaterina Anokhina (Russian Federation)
"You shall not make idols" by Elīna Semane (Latvia)
"Essential examination of a possible offense" by Elizabete Džeina Rubene (Latvia)
"on my (T) Own//Kendi Kentime" by Emre Akyuz (Turkey)
"Not Anymore" by Emre Erbay (Turkey)
"Waragi" by Florian Genz (Germany)
"So Close, Yet So Far" by Hengame Hosseini (Iran/Germany)
"City for the Blind" by Hieronymus Ahrens (Germany)
"Around 42nd and 7th" by Hiro Tanaka (Japan)
"In belief is power" by Hristina Tasheva (Bulgaria/Netherlands)
"Desentimental" by Inga Navickaite (Lithuania)
"running up that hill" by Izabela Nowak (Poland)
"46" by Jacek Fota (Poland)
"Selfitis" by Jeronimas Seibutis (Lithuania)
"pt. =====" by Jessica Raimondi (Italy)
"Retreat" by Kristīne Madjare (Latvia)
"Followers" by Linda Kletniece (Latvia)
"High Culture" by Marta Wodz (Poland)
"what battle, exactly?" by Mike Callaghan (Canada)
"She Looks 32" by Nora Vrubļevska (Latvia)
"Delta" by Oguz Karakutuk (Turkey)
"There's a Lion Near the River" by Rita Carvalho (Portugal)
"Paradise" by Sasha Kurmaz (Ukraine)
"6 not taken // You Deserve Hell" by Steffen Kloster Poulsen (Denmark)
"But so far I have not reached the trees" by Taisia Sharafutdinova (Russian Federation)
"Dissapearance" by Tomasz Laczny (Poland/UK)
"A Never Ending Story" by Viktorija Halilova (Latvia)
"Chimera" by Vladimíra Kotra (Czech Republic)

Thanks to our international jury:

Dieter Neubert - the Founder and Director of the Kassel Fotobookfestival and Founder of the Kassel Photobook and Dummy Awards,
Valentina Abenavoli - book designer, editor and publisher at Akina Books, currently based in Turkey,
Lisa Stein - London-based editor and writer specialising in photography. Managing editor at the Photocaptionist and assistant reviews editor at the Burlington Magazine,
Gintaras Česonis - director of Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania,
Evita Goze - photographer, writer and curator of SELF PUBLISH RIGA.

SELF PUBLISH RIGA 2016

SELF PUBLISH RIGA 2016 exhibition and talks coming this week as part of the opening events of the Riga Photomonth 2016! Detailed programme of the events here. 

SELF PUBLISH RIGA izstāde un pasākumu sērija sākās 12. maijā, reizē ar Rīgas Fotomēneša atklāšanu! Detalizēta pasākumu programma te.
 

Self Publish Riga winners announced!

Self Publish Riga contest results announced! Congratulations to Top Ten and the winners - Alessia Bernardini (“Becoming Simone”), Mafalda Rakoš, Iuna Vieira& Raphael Reichl (“3rd Generation”), Līva Rutmane (“Chomsky”) and Alvaro Deprit (“Dreaming Leone”), as well as Antalis Award recipients Luīze Pētersone (“House in the woods”) and Anna Volkova (“Temporary need”)!

SELF PUBLISH RIGA programme

The programme of talks and presentations for SELF PUBLISH RIGA, one of the central events of the Riga Photomonth 2014, is online. On 9 - 11 May, Riga will host over 15 international guests speaking about photobooks and self/publishing, 9 book collections, shortlisted dummies from the Self Publish Riga contest and a pop-up bookstore - a festival within the festival!

Artist's Book Workshop

Applications are open for Artist's Book Workshop with Nico Baumgarten, from 3-7 May in Riga! Photographers, illustrators, graphic artists and other creatives with projects ready for presentation in form of a book are welcome to apply by 1st April!

Submit your dummy

We are happy to announce the SELF PUBLISH RIGA photobook dummy contest and exhibition! Send us your dummy until 20 April 2014 take part in the exciting events during Riga Photomonth on 3-11 May! More information here.