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Leica Oskar Barnack Award

The highly esteemed and coveted international award for high quality reportage photography has been presented since 1979, the year marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Oskar Barnack. The prize is awarded by Leica Camera AG and also includes the presenting of a ‘Newcomer Award'.

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2025 Leica Oskar Barnack Award

Take a look at the shortlist

Take a look at the 12 shortlisted series online now – striking visual narratives that will both touch and stir you. 

The final shortlist was selected by this year’s LOBA jury: Jane Evelyn Atwood, Photographer and 1997 LOBA Winner (USA/France); Cyril Drouhet, Deputy Director of Photography at Le Figaro Magazine (France); Felix Hoffmann, Artistic Director at Foto Arsenal Vienna (Austria); Curt Holtz, Editor-in-Chief for Photography and Architecture at Prestel Publishing (Germany) and Karin Rehn-Kaufmann, Art Director and Chief Representative of Leica Galleries International (Austria)

Winner Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2024

In the 44th edition of the prestigious photography award, the LOBA jury selected Italian-born, Swiss-based photographer Davide Monteleone with his series “Critical Minerals – Geography of Energy,” for the main prize, while Moldovan photographer Maria Guțu won the LOBA Newcomer Award for her “Homeland” series. The two winning series were selected from a field of around 250 submissions, which had been previously presented to the LOBA jury by roughly 80 international photography experts from around 50 countries.

Leica Oskar Barnack Award winners from previous years