Scade il 1 Marzo 2011

Leica Camera AG invites professional photographers to submit entries to the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, an international photography competition.

An international jury will judge photographers whose unerring powers of observation capture and express the relationship between humans and the environment in graphic form in a sequence of up to 12 images. Entry submissions must be a self-contained series of images in which the photographer perceives and documents the interaction between humans and the environment with acute vision and contemporary visual style – creative, unobtrusive and groundbreaking.

The competition is a memorial to Oskar Barnack (1879–1936), the inventor of the Leica. From 1914 on, he increasingly used the prototype camera he developed, today known as the Ur-Leica, for photography. The history of photojournalism is closely tied to his invention, as, beginning in 1925, the compact and easily carried Leica cameras were instrumental in enabling entirely new and expressive forms of photography.

Incorporated in this competition there is also the Newcomers Award, open to all (prospective) photographers who are aged 25 years and under. The winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award will receive a Leica M9 camera and a lens.

Eligibility

The Leica Oskar Barnack Award is open only to professional photographer.

Prize

This year the value of the competition prizes has been increased. For the first time, the winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award will receive a Leica M9 camera and a lens worth 9,500 euros in addition to a cash prize of 5,000 euros.

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