Brussels-based photographer Rebecca Fertinel has won the Unseen Dummy Award with her book Ubuntu. The book was shot in Congo,which Fertinel first visited in August 2015, when she was invited to a wedding by a friend. Whilst there she was introduced to a warm and friendly society, or the concept of "ubuntu" - the opinion that "you become a human being by connecting with everything and everyone".
The judges were particularly impressed with the editing of Fertinel's book proposal which,they say, "transforms documentary photography into an unexpected narrative flow of community events". The images move from one party to another party to a funeral, and for example,the latter creating "a kind of breaking point" in the middle of the book, creating "a kind of dance where you don't know what comes after", and thereby summing up something approximately life.
Source: bjp-online.com