Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2012 competition now open

By LR admin | Published: January 16, 2012

Entries now being accepted for annual Leica photography competition

16 January 2012: Leica Camera AG has announced that entries are now being accepted for the 2012 Oskar Barnack Award. Photographers interested in submitting entries can apply from now until 1 March 2012. Full details, entry criteria and terms and conditions can be found at www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com.

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 further prize will be awarded – the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award’ – for (prospective) professional photographers aged 25 and under. The winner of this section will also be awarded a Leica M9-P complete with lens.

The members of this year’s international 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.

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  • Dave

    The “Stop Censorship” pop-up ads are obnoxious. I come here to read about photography, not to be browbeaten by the Internet oligopoly.

    • http://leicarumors.com LR admin

      Did you spend at least a minute to understand what the issue is? I would not post this ad if I don’t think is crucial to the future of this site and the Internet as we know it.

      • David S

        I spent far more than a minute learning about it. The legislation that has been proposed exists to protect content creators — which includes artists, filmmakers, musicians, artists, and yes, photographers. Silicon Valley is spending vast amounts of money to frighten and confuse people in order to protect the advertising revenue it generates from search requests for pirated material.

        In general, I would be very skeptical when any corporation claims it’s doing something in the name of free speech. They don’t care about free speech. They care about profit — their profit. By shilling for them, you show where your allegiances lie — you’re on the side of the internet industry and against artists in general. That’s your right — it’s your website, after all. Just don’t get upset when your banner ads fail to cow others into toeing your line.

        • J Shin

          I should stay out of this, but lest my Marxist credentials go to waste…

          Just wanted to point out that this is actually a corporate interests vs. corporate interests battle. “Content creators” which the bills protect are not exactly people, Mitt Romney notwithstanding. There is never a “pure and good” side in a legislative battle; somebody’s interests have to be at stake for there to be a battle at all, you see.

          I think more to the point is that the bills are rather badly written and will cause a lot of headache. I don’t think people who oppose the bills oppose the protection of actual content creators (as opposed to their corporate beneficiaries); they are, after all, mostly content creators themselves.

        • http://leicarumors.com LR admin

          I do not get upset if somebody doesn’t have the same views as I do, I just think that this is too important of an issue to ignore it. I am not supporting piracy of copyrighted content. There are many other ways to protect intelectual property and some of them work pretty good – I have used them in the past. The banner was scheduled to run for 12 hours and was displayed only the first time you visit the site – I think this was reasonable.

          • Dave

            Fair enough. As I said, it’s your site. I am getting tired of sites like Flickr insisting that I black out my photos in protest, though.

            What I find particularly off-putting is the degree of misrepresentation going on. Every one of these banner ads screams “CENSORSHIP”, when that’s not an accurate representation of what the bill is about. Similarly, opponents of the bill refuse to actually name the bill in question, because it would force them to use the word “piracy”. Instead they use the scary acronym “SOPA”. It’s just intellectually dishonest to claim you’re for the free exchange of ideas while simultaneously trying to mislead people about what the bill is about.

          • http://leicarumors.com LR admin

            just to prove my point – you can still fight piracy without SOPA & PIPA:

            http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/19/federal-prosecutors-shut-down-megaupload-file-sharing-site-foun/

            it seems also that all online activities yesterday did make sense – this is why I did it:

            http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/sopa-opponents-supporters/

  • Dave

    I wouldn’t be overly self-congratulatory. It’s a victory earned entirely through deception. And you may find your cultural landscape impoverished in five years as a result of this.

    At the very least, it will certainly have an impact on the coming election, as Hollywood contibutors have already announced that they intend to repay the favor by withholding contributions to the Obama campaign. The entertainment industry has long been taken for granted by the Democrats, but if they won’t support copyright protections, maybe the Republicans will. As of now, I am voting Romney.

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