The 2015 Leica Oskar Barnack competition is now closed. A total of 1689 entries were received. You can see the 50 best entries for the main Oskar Barnack Award and the 20 best entries in the category Newcomer Award at leica-oskar-barnack-award.com. The winners will be announced in June, 2015.
INVITATION TO SUBMIT ENTRIES FOR THE LEICA OSKAR BARNACK AWARD – WITH EVEN MORE VALUABLE PRIZES The cash prize for the winner of the main category has been raised to 25,000 euros Leica Camera AG, Wetzlar, invites professional photographers and newcomers to the profession to submit their work for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2015 […]
Alejandro Cegarra shares the story and inspiration behind “The Other Side of the Tower of David,” which is dedicated to the squatters in an abandoned tower block in Caracas and his winning project for the Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2014.
Oskar Barnack Award Winner 2014 Martin Kollar takes us behind the scenes of his winning portfolio “Field Trip.” The photos of the Field Trip portfolio were shot in the context of the project entitled The Places, a dossier about Israel and the West Bank on which Martin Kollar worked together with 12 other internationally acclaimed […]
This video shows the winners and finalists’ portfolios for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2014. Thousands of entries were received from all over the world. The video and awards were presented on July 9 during Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie photography festival held in Arles, France.
Martin Kollar won the 2014 Leica Oskar Barnack Award: Martin Kollar, born in what was formerly Czechoslovakia, receives the prestigious Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his project Field Trip, a portfolio of photos taken in Israel. The photos of the Field Trip portfolio were shot in the context of the project entitled The Places, a dossier […]
Get an inside look at the 2014 Oskar Barnack Award Jury in action. The jury members include: Karin Rehn-Kaufmann, Art Director, General Manager of the International Leica Galleries, Austria, Ingo Taubhorn, Chief-Curator House of Photography / Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, Xavier Canonne, Director Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Photographer, Russia, and Brigitte Schaller, […]
Solms, Germany (March 2014) – The Leica Oskar Barnack Award announces the addition of a third category: the first-ever “public award,” in honor of 100 years of Leica photography. The winner of this category will walk away with a cash prize of 2,500 euros, and will be selected by the public, who can vote for […]
