After three days of pasting and with a great bunch of helping hands… we are nearly there!
Have a look at our Timelapse!
And come to the show!

Next Show:
Stephen Gill
Nobody’s Library

from 17th May to 5th July 2025

@THE BOX & BUNKERGARTEN
Körnerstr 6-8 & 101

Opening Sat: 17th May as of 14:00
Gartenparty with drinks and DJ
in the BunkerGarten as of 19:00

part of:
Internationale Photoszene Festival Cologne

Happy to see you there!

This year’s Dummy Award revealed a fascinating paradox: photobooks have never been more polished, yet their essence remains raw, instinctive, deeply personal. Across hundreds of submissions, we saw a striking trend: Refined outside, raw inside

Dummy Award 25 Shortlist ! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

What a night! What a schwof! What a great crowd! Dreimol FotoKarneval Alaaf!

FotoKarneval!

On our way back from an intense weekend in London/Bristol with meetings at Rocket Gallery and at Martin Parr Foundation preparing our upcoming show GRAND HOTEL PARR on Martin’s PhotoBooks in October in Neues Museum Nürnberg. Stay tuned!

It’s time for FotoKarneval again!
Join our traditional karneval party at K18 in Körnerstrasse on Friday 28th of February as of 19:00 🚀
Setting : Beggar’s Honey by @jacklatham.bsky.social

#alaaf #colognecarnival #fotokarneval

FotoKarneval goes K18 ! 7th Edition Save the date : Friday 28th February🚀 Setting : Beggar’s Honey by @jacklatham📱 @koernerstrasse_ehrenfeld #colognecarnival #fotokarneval

Lukas Birk Workshop with the Instant Box Canera in full swing !

We are very happy to welcome Lukas Birk in Cologne. Lukas will be giving an Artist Talk on his publishing projects aka Fraglich Publishing. Join us on Saturday 08.02.2025 as of 20:00 at THE BOX in Cologne.

fraglich.com

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International!

A small recap of the Dummy Award World Tour 24/25
What an impressive line up! A big thank you to all the hosting venues !

Cologne/ Milan / Barcelona / Łódź / Arles / Hong Kong / Sao Paola / Buenos Aires / Santiago and Jakarta !

Send your dummy on a world tour- register for the dummyaward.org

FROM YANGON TO PESHAWAR ! Fraglich Publishing by Lukas Birk. @thephotobookmuseum.bsky.social !

Welcome to a Special Evening with Lukas Birk in Cologne !

Lukas Birk will give an exclusive Box Camera Workshop while he is in Cologne on February 8th 2025.
Join uns for a hands on introduction into Instant Box Camera Photography by the master himself! The workshop is free, but limited to 8 participants.
Please DM if you want to reserve your place.