Leica Oskar Barnack Award
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'.
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.
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Davide Monteleone: Critical Minerals – Geography of Energy
See moreIn the photographer’s on-going, long-term study, he questions the current reorientation of the energy industry towards renewable sources, and problematises the resulting and complicated geopolitical, social and ecological effects, using the examples of copper, lithium and cobalt mining in Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia. In his multi-layered series he shows the landscapes and industrial complexes, while making the people working there the central focus of his work.
The winning series was proposed by Italian LOBA nominator Antonia Benedetta Donato.
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Maria Guțu: Homeland
See moreThe Moldovan photographer’s personal story was the starting point for her touching portrait series: she grew up with her grandparents, because her own parents – like many others in her homeland – had to move abroad for economic reasons. In the last twenty years, nearly a quarter of the small country’s population have left. Guțu’s poetic and visual narrative asks about the meaning of roots and of home, which have changed significantly over the years.
The series was proposed for the LOBA Newcomer Category – directed at photographers up to 30 years in age – by Docdocdoc, School of Modern Photography, St. Petersburg
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Davide Monteleone: Critical Minerals – Geography of Energy
See moreIn the photographer’s on-going, long-term study, he questions the current reorientation of the energy industry towards renewable sources, and problematises the resulting and complicated geopolitical, social and ecological effects, using the examples of copper, lithium and cobalt mining in Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia. In his multi-layered series he shows the landscapes and industrial complexes, while making the people working there the central focus of his work.
The winning series was proposed by Italian LOBA nominator Antonia Benedetta Donato.
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Maria Guțu: Homeland
See moreThe Moldovan photographer’s personal story was the starting point for her touching portrait series: she grew up with her grandparents, because her own parents – like many others in her homeland – had to move abroad for economic reasons. In the last twenty years, nearly a quarter of the small country’s population have left. Guțu’s poetic and visual narrative asks about the meaning of roots and of home, which have changed significantly over the years.
The series was proposed for the LOBA Newcomer Category – directed at photographers up to 30 years in age – by Docdocdoc, School of Modern Photography, St. Petersburg
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Davide Monteleone: Critical Minerals – Geography of Energy
See moreIn the photographer’s on-going, long-term study, he questions the current reorientation of the energy industry towards renewable sources, and problematises the resulting and complicated geopolitical, social and ecological effects, using the examples of copper, lithium and cobalt mining in Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia. In his multi-layered series he shows the landscapes and industrial complexes, while making the people working there the central focus of his work.
The winning series was proposed by Italian LOBA nominator Antonia Benedetta Donato.
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Maria Guțu: Homeland
See moreThe Moldovan photographer’s personal story was the starting point for her touching portrait series: she grew up with her grandparents, because her own parents – like many others in her homeland – had to move abroad for economic reasons. In the last twenty years, nearly a quarter of the small country’s population have left. Guțu’s poetic and visual narrative asks about the meaning of roots and of home, which have changed significantly over the years.
The series was proposed for the LOBA Newcomer Category – directed at photographers up to 30 years in age – by Docdocdoc, School of Modern Photography, St. Petersburg
Leica Oskar Barnack Award winners from previous years
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Winner 2013 / Evgenia Arbugaeva
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Winner Newcomer 2013 / Ciril Jazbec
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Winner 2022/Kiana Hayeri
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Winner Newcomer 2022/Valentin Goppel
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Winner 2021/Ana María Arévalo Gosen
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Winner Newcomer 2021/Emile Ducke
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Winner 2020 / Luca Locatelli
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Winner Newcomer 2020 / Gonçalo Fonseca
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Winner 2019 / Mustafah Abdulaziz
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Winner Newcomer 2019 / Nanna Heitmann
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Winner 2018 / Max Pinckers
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Winner Newcomer 2018 / Mary Gelman
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Winner 2017 / Terje Abusdal
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Winner Newcomer 2017 / Sergej Melnitchenko
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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
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Winner 2014 / Martin Kollar
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Winner Newcomer 2014 / Alejandro Cegarra
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Winner 2013 / Evgenia Arbugaeva
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Winner Newcomer 2013 / Ciril Jazbec
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Winner 2022/Kiana Hayeri
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Winner Newcomer 2022/Valentin Goppel