Thursday, March 8, 2012

The 2012 Leica Oskar Barnack Award has begun


The 2012 Leica Oskar Barnack Award has begun. The terms and conditions of entry can be downloaded from leica-oskar-barnack-award.com. Photographers interested in taking part can now submit their applications and photographic projects online until 1 March 2012.
The Leica Oskar Barnack Award will be presented for the 33rd time this year. The winner will receive a Leica M9-P camera with lens worth approximately €10,000 in addition to a cash prize of €5,000. A second honour in the course of the competition will be awarded in the category ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award', for (prospective) professional photographers aged 25 and under. The winner of the first prize in this section will also be awarded a Leica M9-P complete with lens.

An international jury awards the Leica Oskar Barnack Award/Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award to photographers whose unerring powers of observation capture and express the relationship between people and their environment in graphic form in a portfolio of up to 12 images. Submissions must be a self-contained series of images in which the photographer perceives and documents the interaction between people and their environment with acute vision and contemporary visual style - creative, unobtrusive and groundbreaking.

The members of this year's jury include: Bruce Gilden, Magnum photographer, Stephan Erfurt, Director of C/O Berlin, Valérie Fougeirol, Creative Director of the Magnum Gallery in Paris, Karin Rehn-Kaufmann, Artistic Director of the Leica Galerie in Salzburg and Brigitte Schaller, Art Director of Leica Fotografie International magazine. The awards will be presented in the course of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie photography festival to be held in Arles, France from 2 to 8 July 2012.

More Information: http://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/

 Winner 2011: Jan Grarup - „Haiti Aftermath"

 Winner 2011: Jing Huang - „Pure of Sight"



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