Promotional Bundles for Leica S (Typ 006) and Leica SE
(Typ 006)
Leica announced a special
promotion of the Leica S (Typ 006) and the Leica S-E (Typ 006). Both cameras
come equipped with the 70mm f/2.5 Summarit-S ASPH lens. Prices are $14,075.60 for the Leica S bundle
and $11,435.60 for the Leica S-E bundle.
These are savings of more than $10,000 over the normal cost of these
Leica S models. The prices include the
current 12% exchange rate savings which are in effect until the end of July.
Leica S
Leica S-E
Permanent Fix announced for the CCD Sensor Corrosion
Problem of the M9, M9-P, MM and M-E Models
According to Leica, the
recognition of a corrosion-related problem on the cover glass of the sensors of
the above-mentioned camera models (see information from 10.12.2014), they have
been working with their sensor supplier on a long-term technical solution.
The development phase of a
new generation of sensors has now nearly been completed. In the next phase,
independent users will be testing the new sensor in practical situations to
guarantee that the imaging characteristics of the cameras remain unaltered.
After completion and evaluation
of this testing phase, they will begin the replacement of corroded sensors by
the new-generation sensor.
As the goodwill arrangement
for the replacement of affected sensors applies irrespective of the age of the
camera, and also to sensors already replaced in the above-mentioned camera
models, repairs will continue without interruption until the new sensors are
available.
Please understand that sensor
replacement can only be offered for cameras affected by the concrete problem
and that preventive replacement is not possible.
Winners of this Year’s Oskar Barnack Award
Official Leica Press
Release: JH Engström is honored with the
award for his photographic project titled Tout Va Bien
The depiction of the
relationship between man and their environment in a series of photographs
captured with incisive powers of observation is and remains the mission of the
Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Leica Camera AG is presenting the prestigious awards
for the 35th time and now, in 2015, has increased the value of the cash prizes
once again. The winners of this year’s competition have now been chosen.
First place in the main
category, honored with a cash prize of 25,000 euros and a Leica M camera and
lens, goes to JH Engström for his series titled Tout Va Bien.
JH Engström, Sweden
„Tout Va Bien“
Tout Va Bien does not handle
a concrete subject in the traditional sense. The Swedish photographer JH
Engström intends his project to be seen much more as visual poetry – a
photographic narrative with strong autobiographical elements. Despite this, it
does not exclusively depict aspects of his own life. Tout Va Bien is a sequence
of widely differing images. The winning series includes both portraits and
landscapes, as well as bizarre snapshots like the photograph of the birth of
his twins. The photographer also switches between exposures in black and white
and color. Engström plays with contrasts and leaves it to viewers to find their
own ways of reading and interpreting each picture. The complete project
comprises 90 images and will be published in book form by Aperture in July.
JH Engström, born in 1969 in
Karlstad, Sweden, spent the early part of his career as a photographer between
Sweden and France. After working as an assistant to Mario Testino and Anders
Petersen, he studied film and photography at the University of Gothenburg and
graduated in 1997. Engström has already published a number of different books
of photography – these include Trying to Dance (2003), Haunts (2006), CDG/JHE
(2008), From Back Home (with Anders Petersen, 2009), La Résidence (2010) and
Sketch of Paris (Aperture, 2013) – and has won numerous international awards.
The Leica Oskar Barnack
Newcomer Award, first presented in 2009, has been won by Wiktoria Wojciechowska
for her series ‘Short Flashes’. In her winning series, the Polish photographer
Wiktoria Wojciechowska focuses on fleeting moments of everyday life in China.
Over a period of several months, she portrayed Chinese cyclists pedaling their
damp ways through the incessant rain of the sprawling megacities of Beijing and
Hangzhou.
Wiktoria Wojciechowska,
Poland
„Short Flashes“
The project was shot as the streets were almost flooded in the
typhoon season of 2013 and 2014. Alone, and without speaking a word of Chinese,
the young photographer explored this new terrain without any means of
communicating with the people around her. She identified with and felt the
anonymity of the nameless cyclists and scooter riders who whizzed past her on
the streets. This was the source of her idea for giving these people an
identity – picking them out from the masses – and preserving them in captured
instants. Her snapshot-like images tell the truths of genuine moments. Because,
in contrast to posed and tightly controlled portraits, these spontaneous and
unnoticed exposures show the reality and authenticity that exists between
ingrained behavioral patterns.
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Leica Akademie Chicago
with Craig Semetko - August 2015
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