Coming up!
17.04. – 13.06.2026
PUK! PUK!
Bulgarian PhotoBooks!
The PhotoBookMuseum is delighted to present an exhibition of Bulgarian photobooks by our friends at PUK!. Founded in 2017 by three artists with a passion for photobooks, PUK! is an independent photobook platform. Beginning by sharing their own discoveries with the local audience, PUK! has, over the years, organised book launches, artist talks, pop-up exhibitions and other events showcasing the Bulgarian photobook scene at home and abroad.
This selection of 40 publications reflects the relationships that PUK! has built with fellow artists, including established and emerging photographers, contemporary artists, and DIY collectives. The exhibition also features rarities and dummy books that exist in only a few copies. In the absence of publishers dedicated to photography in Bulgaria, many of these books have been self-published. Some of them were created with the direct involvement of PUK! members, while others were launched or presented at PUK! events over the years.
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Opening:
17.04.26 as of 19:00
Guided Book Tour:
18.04.26 as of 16:00
with the PUK! Team: Nikola Mihov, Tihomir Stoyanov and Rossen Kuzmanov
@ THE BOX
Körnerstraße 6–8
Köln - Ehrenfeld
Wednesday to Friday: 16:00–20:00
Saturday and Sunday: 14:00–18:00
and by Appointment:
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THE BOX is supported by:
from HE BREAKS HE CUTS HE SPILLS by Nikola Mihov / photo by Oleg Popov/Press photo BTA
Out now!
GRAND HOTEL PARR
The Photobooks by Martin Parr
Flexcover, 252 Pages,
27,5 x 21 cm
Editorial RM, Barcelona 2025
ISBN: 978-84-10290-47-1
Photography: Nikita Teryoshin, Frederic Lezmi
Design: Paul Spehr
Printed at Mas Matbaa, Istanbul
English version only!
With contributions by Frederic Lezmi, Leonie Sarbo, Christoph Schaden, Markus Schaden, Thomas Weski and an interview between Aaron Schuman und Martin Parr.
Edited by The PhotoBookMuseum
Published in February 2026 – order here:
Editorial RM oder artbooksonline
oder directly at The PhotoBookMuseum
The Dummy Award
*The Dummy Award is the international competition for the best unpublished photobook dummies of the year
Discover the 2026 Dummy Award shortlist
On 14 March, the shortlist jury met in Cologne to review all 325 dummies submitted from 43 countries. Ultimately, 48 books were selected for the Dummy Award ’26 shortlist.
Congratulations to all the shortlisted artists!
Browse the Shortlist
Watch on Youtube
The 2026 Shortlist Jury: Francesca Todde, Frederic Lezmi, Tom Booth Woodger, Kathrin Schönegg, Julia Gelezova, Mimi Mollica & Ufuk Şahin
(from left to right)
Meet The Shortlist-Jury
Read the Jury Statement
Previous Show!
MARTIN PARR
(1952–2025)
We were shocked to hear that Martin Parr passed away on 6 December 2025 in Bristol. We are saddened and stunned.
Looking back, we are deeply grateful that he supported and accompanied our GRAND HOTEL PARR project so intensively until the very end. On the opening night in Nuremberg at the end of October, Martin Parr was clearly enjoying the inauguration of his hotel.
Martin, we‘ll meet you in GRAND HOTEL PARADISE!
Mexico City, Mexico, 2008.
© Martin Parr / MAGNUM PHOTOS
Grand Hotel Parr
Photobooks by Martin Parr
24.10.2025 – 22.02.2026
Neues Museum Nürnberg
photo: Frederic Lezmi for The PhotoBookMusem
In cooperation with The PhotoBookMuseum, Neues Museum Nuremberg presents the first major retrospective of photobook’s by the British Magnum photographer Martin Parr (born 1952). Since the 1980s, Parr has been an unparalleled chronicler of the absurdities of our global consumer and leisure culture, translating them into a distinctive visual idiom. With an unerring eye and a keen sense of humour, his photobooks capture a bizarre world between ostentatious display and kitsch, four-star luxury and “all inclusive”, spanning all social classes and national peculiarities.
The exhibition is staged in a British grand hotel where visitors can peruse Parr’s fascinating photobooks. From the reception, a red carpet leads to the “Reading Lounge” with classics including The Last Resort (1986), Small World (1995) and Common Sense (1999). Parr’s book projects are presented on walls of fake wood panelling, but also in vitrines. In all their diversity and rich detail, these works helped to shape the history of photography. Themed sections like the “Billard Room”, the “Dining Room”, a “Fashion-Boutique” and a terrace of astroturf invite visitors to relax and browse. The visitors follow a parcours where they can stroll and chill, marvel, rummage and leaf through books. In keeping with Parr's motto: ‘The books have won.’
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Coming up:
22nd of January 2026
Guided Tour with Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi
with Special Movie Program
Neues Museum Nürnberg
Luitpoldstraße 5
Tour: 17:00 / Movie Night: 19:00
22nd of February 2026
The Grand Finale at GRAND HOTEL PARR with Catalogue Presentation, Suitcase-Trolley Lottery, Music, Drinks, and a lot of dear Friends!
Neues Museum Nürnberg
Luitpoldstraße 5
18:00
Have a look at the the full program on nmn.de
An exhibition in cooperation with:
Recommended reading
»Form Follows Me«
Photobook Design and Authorship
The European Society for the History of Photography (ESHPh) has invited Christoph Schaden as a guest editor for another special photobook edition of it's bi-annual magazine PhotoResearcher (No.42). Have a look!
"Form follows me" is the title of the new issue of ESHPh-PhotoResearcher, which PBM has produced in cooperation with the ESHPh. For the first time, the renowned scientific periodical is exploring the function and significance of design in photobooks from the point of view of authorship.
The eight text contributions examine the significance of book design in the context of monographic works from the Second World War to the present day. The analyses focus on internationally active auteur photographers such as Otto Steinert, Dominique Darbois and Eikoh Hosoe. But also on subversive expressions of Chilean photobook culture and the legendary MoMA designer Carl G. Laanes, who was responsible for the design of the legendary "William Eggleston's Guide", and not least on influential contemporary designers and artists such as Ana Druga and Thomas Gust, Hans Gremmen and Dayanita Singh.
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Cover from Otto Steinert, Subjektive Fotografie , Bonn 1952. © Museum Folkwang, Essen
Previous Show!
STUDIO COLOGNE
Portraits from Cologne Photo Studios 1861-1928
24 May to 23 June 2024
on Körnerstraße
STUDIO COLOGNE: The Museum goes street!
Through an innovative street-exhibition Körnerstraße in Cologne-Ehrenfeld will be transformed into a walk-in outdoor and indoor exhibition. An 800-metre-long parcours full of discoveries will be created, bringing historical portraits from Cologne's photo studios to new life.
For all! For free! For one month!
more on:
www.studio-cologne.de
Photoatelier BLUM & HÖFFERT, 1908-1918, Hohe Str. 111a
Museum goes Club
Japanese Photobooks from the Collection
A big thank you to the Nachtigall Team and all the many vistors that joined us on that wonderful TOKYO EXPRESS experience.
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Photo: Koji Onaka from memories of younger days in Shinjuku, Tokyo 2018
New Release
Photobooks for everyone!
“The Photobook in Art and Society”
Participative Potentials of a Medium
Photography has been undergoing a paradigm shift since the turn of the millennium. The fine art print has been increasingly replaced, making way for the photobook which is experiencing a certain boom. However, it remains to be seen if the medium finds its way out of the ivory tower of the elitist photography scene. Is the photobook capable of establishing a visible literature that is accessible and understandable for everyone?
The PhotoBookMuseum and the Montag Foundation for Art and Society have tackled this question in a collaborative mobile project. Under the motto "World in Transition", the participatory qualities of photo books have been examined on the basis of new communication concepts. In the recent publication, professionals from the fields of science, art practice and culture institutions impressively unveil the social relevance of the medium. The Reader demonstrates how photobooks nowadays, act as a structuring force against the immanent flood of images.
“The Photobook in Art and Society”
Participative Potentials of a Medium
Montag Stiftung Kunst und Gesellschaft (Ed.)
in cooperation with The PhotoBookMuseum
Swiss brochure binding
16,7 x 24 cm
468 pages, 220 col. und b/w images.
English
Jovis Verlag, 2020
ISBN 978-3-86859-594-9; € 42,80
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