Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award 2026 was awarded to Liubov Durakova for her dummy Garden Sounds.
Motivation:
Can sound be conveyed through the pages of a book? Garden Sounds by Liubov Durakova convinces us that it can. We hear the wind rustling through the trees, birdsong, and a dog barking in the distance. But we also hear war.
Through a quiet and restrained photographic language, Durakova transports us to a garden where war has left no visible traces, yet its presence is inescapable. The softly luminous photographs could just as easily have been taken a hundred years ago, reminding us that the shadow of war has accompanied humanity throughout history. Yet this is not a story of the past, it is a story of the present.
It is in the tension between the seemingly peaceful idyll and the constant awareness of an ever-present threat that the work finds its extraordinary power.
Jury: Mandy Barker, Greger Ulf Nilson, Tommaso Parrillo , Raquel Villar Perez 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 2027. 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 2026 festival to receive the award and to present their project
Landskrona Foto and Breadfield Dummy Award was arranged for the first time during Landskrona Foto Festival 2015 .
Previous Dummy Award winners:
2015: Meral Güler & Dan Porter, You would be earth
2016: Duccio Doretti, A lit candle lit the following and other coincidences on existence
2017: Gloria Oyarzabal, Picnos Tshombé
2018: Pietro Paolini, Buscando a Bolìvar
2020: Satoshi Tsuchiyama, Heat of Sand
2022: Róisín White, Lay Her Down Upon Her Back
2024: Mazu, Lin Wei-Lun
