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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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Winner Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022

The winner and the newcomer of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022, the internationally-renowed photo competition that was held for the 42nd time this year, have been selected. Both photographers’ series are presented in the Ernst Leitz Museum Wetzlar together with the series of the LOBA 2022 Shortlist.

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Portrait Kiana Hayeri - Photo from Aaron Vincent Elkaim
Leica Oskar Barnack Award Winner 2022

Kiana Hayeri

Promises Written on the Ice, Left in the Sun

After the withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, it took only a few days for the Taliban to destroy all the achievements made in the areas of freedom of expression, women’s rights and education, and to instil fear and insecurity in their place. Kiana Hayeri was born in 1988, in Tehran, Iran, where she grew up, before emigrating to Toronto, Canada, as a teenager. She has been living in Afghanistan for seven years now; her work centres, in particular, around the living situations of women.

Portrait: © Aaron Vincent Elkaim

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Portrait Valentin Goppel - Photo from Alex Wohn
Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award winner 2022

Valentin Goppel

Between the Years

Young adults in times of Corona: the series by the German photographer (born 2000) explores the impact of the pandemic on his generation. He, too, experienced the sudden break away from habits, and the feelings of insecurity that seemed to define people’s plans and the future. Corona was like a catalyser for an ongoing sense of disorientation. Photography, however, offered Goppel a tool with which to better understand his thoughts and fears, and enabled him to give the sense of forlornness visual expression.

Portrait: © Alex Wohn

Leica Oskar Barnack Award winners from previous years

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Winner 2022/Kiana Hayeri
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LOBA 2022 Newcomer Valentin Goppel Between the Years
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Ana María Arévalo Gosen_LOBA 2021
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Emile Ducke_Winner Newcomer_LOBA 2021
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LOBA-2020-Winner_Luca-Locatelli_Future-Studies.jpg
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LOBA-2020_Winner-Newcomer_Gonçalo-Fonseca_New-Lisbon.jpg
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LOBA-2019-Winner_Mustafah-Abdulaziz_Water.jpg
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LOBA-2019_Winner-Newcomer_Nanna-Heitmann_Hiding-from-Baba-Yaga.jpg
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LOBA-2018-Winner_Max-Pinckers_Red-Ink.jpg
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LOBA-2018_Winner-Newcomer_Mary-Gelman_Svetlana.jpg
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LOBA-2017-Winner_Terje-Abusdal_Slash&Burn.jpg
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LOBA-2017_Winner-Newcomer_Sergej-Melnitchenko_Behind-the-Scenes.jpg
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LOBA-2016-Winner_Scarlett-Coten_Mectoub.jpg
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LOBA-2016_Winner-Newcomer_Clementine-Schneidermann_The-Unbearable,-the-Sadness-and-the-Rest.jpg
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LOBA-2015_Winner_JH-Engström_Tout-Va-Bien.jpg
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LOBA-2015_Winner-Newcomer_Wiktoria-Wojciechowska_Short-Flashes.jpg
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LOBA-2014_Winner_Martin-Kollar_Field-Trip.jpg
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LOBA-2014_Winner-Newcomer_Alejandro-Cegarra_The-other-side-of-the-Tower-of-David.jpg
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LOBA-2013_Winner_Evgenia-Arbugaeva_Tiksi.jpg
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LOBA-2013_Winner-Newcomer_Ciril-Jazbec_Waiting-to-Move.jpg