This year's winners of the
internationally renowned and traditional photo competition Leica Oskar Barnack
Award (LOBA), which is being presented for the 40th time this year, have been
announced.
The winner of the main category is the Italian photographer Luca Locatelli. For his series "Future Studies" he was awarded in the main category in LOBA's anniversary year. In addition to the prize money, which has been increased to 40,000 euros this year, Luca Locatelli also receives camera equipment valued at 10,000 euros.
How do we want to live? The photographer’s long-term project visualises research into new ways for our future survival on the planet, and how to deal with the enormous environmental problems we face. With his motifs, Locatelli questions the reigning idea of permanent economic growth, and opens up an intense debate about our relationship with nature and technology.
In the “Newcomer” category for young photographers up to the age of 30, the Portuguese photographer Gonçalo Fonseca prevailed with his series “New Lisbon”.
As winner Gonçalo Fonseca
receives a photographic assignment, a two-week tutoring course at Leica Camera
AG Headquarters in Wetzlar, and a Leica Q, valued at 5,000 euros.
The photographer’s series deals with the dramatic housing situation currently affecting Lisbon and, based on individual stories, reveals the consequences of advancing gentrification. As a result of exploding property prices in the capital, over 10,000 tenants have already lost their homes.
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