Here are the twelve shortlist finalist of the Leica Oscar Barnack Awards 2023 (LOBA) photo competition:
- Eric Bouvet (France): Elevations
- Ismail Ferdous (USA): Sea Beach
- Johanna-Maria Fritz (Germany): A Grave in the Garden
- Natela Grigalashvili (Georgia): The Final Days of Georgian Nomads
- Jonas Kakó (Germany): The Dying River
- Ziyi Le (China): New Comer
- Edu León (Spain): Unearth the Memory
- Rania Matar (USA): Fifty Years Later
- Gustavo Minas (Brazil): Liquid Cities
- Seamus Murphy (Ireland): Kingdom
- Jordi Ruiz Cirera (Spain): On This Side There Are Dreams, Too
- Laetitia Vançon (France): Tributes to Odesa
