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Leica has released details of the twelve finalists for this year´s Leica Oskar Barnack Award, one of who will take the EUR35,000 (approx. $41,000) top prize. Organizers say that 2500 photographers submitted work to the competition this year, and that 110 countries are represented in the contest that looked for portfolios of 10-12 images demonstrating `the relationship between man and the environment in the most graphic form´.
The winner will be announced at a ceremony in Berlin in October, with the best portfolio earning the photographer a EUR25,000 cash prize as well as EUR10,000 of Leica M equipment. The best new photographer will win an M camera and lens kit of the same value along with EUR10,000, and the ten runner-ups will receive EUR2500.
Above you`ll see a single image from each of the portfolios, but to see all the images and to get a better sense of the issues and stories they cover, visit the Leica Oskar Barnack Awards website.
Press release
Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2018: The twelve finalists have been chosen
During European Month of Photography (EMOP, Berlin), the finalists´ project portfolios will be presented in a major exhibition in the `Neuen Schule für Fotografie Berlin´ from 10th to 31st October 2018
The twelve finalists of this year´s Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) have been chosen. The complete portfolios from the categories `Leica Oskar Barnack Award´ and `Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer´ can now be viewed at www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com
This year, around 2,500 photographers from a total of 110 different countries submitted entries to the LOBA competition.
This year, the jury was again impressed by the large number of entrants and the high quality of the portfolios entered in the competition. `With every new year of the competition, ...
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