$66,000 Leica Oskar Barnack Award announces photography jury

This 12 months, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award enters into its 42nd edition. Centered on the submissions manufactured by nominations from all about the entire world, a jury will make your mind up on the shortlist and winners.

In May, the jury will arrive jointly at Leica Camera headquarters in Wetzlar to deliberate. They will occur up with a shortlist of a maximum of 12 collection for the major classification, and 6 for the Newcomer group, and to come to a decision on the winners of LOBA 2022. The moment once more this 12 months, all-around 60 photography professionals from 34 international locations have submitted their proposals.

• Looking for the ideal Leica cameras?

Dependent on their experience and experience, each nominator has submitted up to 3 photograph collection. The stipulations for a Leica Oskar Barnack Award nomination need that the pictures be portion of a documentary or conceptual-artistic entire body of perform, and offer with the romantic relationship of humanity to the environment. This humanistic regular has outlined the function given that its inception in 1979 that calendar year the developer of the Ur-Leica, whose title graces the levels of competition, would have been 100 years outdated.

The 2022 jury features Alessia Glaviano, head of world-wide photograph Vogue and director of the Photograph Vogue Competition (Italy) Natalia Jiménez-Stuard, photo editor at The Washington Post (United states of america) Dominic Nahr, 2009 winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award and a photographer for shops like Time (Switzerland), Azu Nwagbogu, founder and director of the African Artists’ Basis and LagosPhoto Pageant (Nigeria) and Karin Rehn-Kaufmann, artwork director and general representative of Leica Galleries Intercontinental (Austria).

For the initially time, the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award – which goes to photographers less than 30 yrs of age – will be chosen in collaboration with and by the proposals submitted by worldwide establishments and universities from 15 international locations.

For example, the Hanover University of Used Sciences and Arts, which is one of the country’s most renowned universities for its instructional section of Photojournalism and Documentary Images, is taking part from Germany. In addition to other European universities from France, Terrific Britain, Italy and Austria, there are additional collaborating associates from each continent in the earth. Throughout the summer season months, all the shortlisted candidates and their sequence will be released on the opposition web site.

The announcement of the winners in equally groups will be produced during the award ceremony in Wetzlar, in October 2022. Following a substantial raise in 2020, the prize monies will stay the very same for 2022: the main award gets €40,000 (approximately $44,000 / £33,000 / AU$59,000) and Leica digital camera products valued at €10,000 ($11,000 / £8,000 / AU$15,000) the newcomer gets €10,000 euros and a Leica Q2.

In addition, the winning series will be element of a touring exhibition, that will to start with be introduced at the award ceremony in Oct in Wetzlar and will then be shown at Leica Galleries and Photograph Festivals all around the earth. The winners and shortlisted candidates will also be introduced in a catalogue.

Picture 1 of 1