By Heinz Richter
Once again, LOBA, the Leica Oscar Barnack Award has been awarded to two of the entrants, one for the LOBA main category and one for the winner of the newcomer division.
The Main category was awarded to Davide Monteleone, who was born in Italy and resides in Switzerland, for his series “Critical Minerals – Geography of Energy”. Moldovan photographer Maria Guţu won the LOBA newcomer category with her series “Homeland.”
Davide Monteleone was born1974 in Potenza, in Italy’s Basilicata Region, the photographer currently lives in Switzerland. He has a Master’s Degree in Art and Politics from the Goldsmith University London, and works as a curator and lecturer at many public and private institutions. As of 2001 he spent a decade living and working in Russia. His work as a visual artist and researcher encompasses the fields of image design, visual journalism and writing. For several years he has been focussing on climate issues in the tense relationship between economics and geopolitics. Monteleone has published numerous books and writes regularly for magazines such as National Geographic, TIME, and The New Yorker. His work has been exhibited many times. Among others, he has been honoured with the National Geographic Storyteller's Fund, the National Geographic Society Fellowship, the Asia Society Fellowship, the Carmignac Photojournalism Award, the EPEA Award, the European Publishers Award and several World Press Photo Awards, among others. In 2020, he already made it onto the LOBA shortlist with his ‘Sinomocene’ series.
Maria Guțu was born in the Republic of Moldova in 1996. In 2020, she graduated in Cinematography from the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Chișinău, and in 2022 she completed studies at the Docdocdoc School of Modern Photography in Sankt Petersburg. She has received many recognitions for her work: among others, she is the winner of the VID Foundation Mentorship 2023. Guțu lives today in Glodeni, a city in the north-west of the Republic of Moldova.
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