Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award
Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award 2024 was awarded to Lin Wei-Lun for his dummy “Mazu,”.
Motivation:
Lin Wei-Lun’s personal account of the tensions between Taiwan, China and the United States gives us a close insight into a complex conflict. By writing postcards to the sea goddess Mazu – who is regarded as the patron goddess of Taiwan as a whole – the artist asks for protection during a state of geopolitical instability.
Tourist postcards, with their beautiful topographical views of cities and landscapes, have been replaced by everyday situations and places. Instead of “I was there”, the message is rather “Listen to us!”
Using small but powerful means, Lin Wei-Lun displays an ability to make us heed his call. Complicated issues such as national identity are conveyed here in a tender and cautious way. Wei-Lun waits for a response from Mazu, and everyone waits for peace and respect for both peoples.
Jury: Clare Strand, Philippe Séclier, Rasmus Vasli, Jacob Birch and Jenny Lindhe.
Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award enables the winner to have his or her book project published by Landskrona Foto and Breadfield Press during 2025. The prize includes all expenses for book production such as design, printing and distribution. The photographer will also receive a large number of books to dispose over and sell. The winner will be invited to Landskrona Foto Festival 2024 festival to receive the award and to present their project.
Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award 2022 was awarded to Róisín White - Lay Her Down Upon Her Back
Jury: Holly Roussell, Gloria Oyarzabal, Tommaso Parrillo, Nela Eggenberger, Jenny Lindhe
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Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award 2020 was awarded to Satoshi Tsuchiyama – Heat of Sand.
Honorable mentions are:
Franziska Rieder (Germany) – 1-212-529-1432: Voice Messages from late 90s New York City
Christopher Rodriguez (United States) – Afterlife
Robin Hinsch (Germany) – Wahala
Jury:
Rémi Faucheux, Tiffany Jones, Eamonn Doyle, Nina Strand, Jenny Lindhe
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Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award 2018 was awarded to:
Pietro Paolini - Buscando a Bolìvar.
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Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award 2017 was awarded to:
Gloria Oyarzabal - La Picnolepsia de Tshombé
The jury’s citation:
La Picnolepsia de Tshombé
This is an important story, the aesthetics of disappearance. A complex relationship being exposed between Africa and Europe using the example of The Democratic republic of Congo. It uses multiple types of imagery and texts put together in an original and provocative manner. It is a solid project telling a story of modern conflict normally erased. A clever book that connects both significant narratives, that do not sit together easily, with the nature of photography itself – to be visible and invisible in the same moment.
The 2017 jury consisted of:
Nina Grundemark (Grundemark Nilsson gallery), Sweden, Anna Fox (artist), England, Matilda Plöjel (graphic designer), Sweden, Moritz Neumuller (curator), Austria, Jenny Lindhe (Breadfield), Sweden.
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Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award 2016 was awarded to:
Duccio Doretti (IT) -
A lit candle lit the following and other coincidences on existence.
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Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award 2015 was awarded to:
Meral Güler (USA) and Dan Porter (UK) - You Would Be Earth