
Minox Files Archive 1994 – 2025
- Publisher
- Unpublished dummy
- Year
- 2026
- Specifications
- Softcover in slipcase
21 x 18 cm
2000 pages
Shortlisted, Dummy Award 2026
Photobook dummy by Mark van den Brink (the Netherlands), shortlisted for the Dummy Award 2026. The book emerges from a large archive of small subminiature negatives, 8 x 11 mm in size, made with the Minox spy camera, the smallest format in analogue photography. Rather than constructing a narrative, it gathers fragments, fleeting gestures and quiet observations. The images accumulate without hierarchy, forming a field of moments that echo the instability of memory. As in life, the sequence remains unpredictable, at times frustrating, yet persistently engaging. The cover is plain white with a single line of small black type. The Dummy Award, organised by the PhotoBookMuseum in Cologne, shortlisted 48 unpublished dummies from about 325 entries from more than 45 countries; the shortlist travels on a world tour of photography events and venues.