
Humanscape: Tianjin 39.0851° N, 117.1994° E
- Publisher
- Unpublished dummy
- Year
- 2026
- Specifications
- Newspaper format
50 x 35 cm
88 pages
80 gsm double-coated digital broadsheets
Design by Ruyun Xiao (The Little Studio)
Shortlisted, Dummy Award 2026
Photobook dummy by Yue Hu (China), shortlisted for the Dummy Award 2026. This newspaper is a multi-sensory walking exploration of the reclaimed coastline in the author's hometown, Tianjin, China, diagnosing one of the world's largest human-made landscapes as a growing humanscape. By setting the author as a measure in this alienating young land, it presents intimacy and estrangement, distance and vastness, ambiguity and boundary through textures, topographies and shifted scales, from the microscopic to the macroscopic. The project was supported by the University of Plymouth. The Dummy Award, organised by the PhotoBookMuseum in Cologne, shortlisted 48 unpublished dummies from about 325 entries from more than 45 countries; the shortlist travels on a world tour of photography events and venues.