The Dummy Award is the international competition for the best unpublished photobook dummies of the year. Since 2010, the Kassel Fotobook Festival has been inviting photographers to take part in its Kassel Dummy Award.

The participating photographers have been able to establish contacts with galleries, publishers and festivals and presented their books to an international audience. Hundreds of books from the shortlist have been exhibited at countless international photography events, festivals and exhibition spaces. Over this period of time thousands of photobook prototypes have been submitted from all over the world.