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Leica Awards

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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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Leica Oskar Barnack Award winners from previous years

Winner 2022/Kiana Hayeri

Winner 2022/Kiana Hayeri

LOBA 2022 Newcomer Valentin Goppel Between the Years

Winner Newcomer 2022/Valentin Goppel

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Winner 2021/Ana María Arévalo Gosen

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Winner Newcomer 2021/Emile Ducke

Winner 2020 / Luca Locatelli

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Winner Newcomer 2020 / Gonçalo Fonseca

Winner 2019 / Mustafah Abdulaziz

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Winner Newcomer 2019 / Nanna Heitmann

Winner 2018 / Max Pinckers

Winner Newcomer 2018 / Mary Gelman

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Winner 2017 / Terje Abusdal

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Winner Newcomer 2017 / Sergej Melnitchenko

Winner 2016 / Scarlett Coten

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Winner Newcomer 2016 / Clementine Schneidermann

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Winner 2015 / JH Engström

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Winner Newcomer 2015 / Wiktoria Wojciechowska

Winner 2014 / Martin Kollar

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Winner Newcomer 2014 / Alejandro Cegarra

Winner 2013 / Evgenia Arbugaeva

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Winner Newcomer 2013 / Ciril Jazbec