The Leica Picture of the Year was launched in 2021 by Leica Camera AG and is a collaboration with outstanding Leica photographers and Leica Hall of Fame winners. Each Leica Picture of the Year comprises a limited edition photographic print and is available to purchase exclusively from the Leica Galleries worldwide. The aim of the Leica Picture of the Year is to share the success of the Leica Hall of Fame with photography enthusiasts and give collectors and friends of Leica the chance to build up a collection of great photography.
Herlinde Koelbl
Leica Picture of the Year 2024
The 2024 Leica Picture of the Year is an image by German photographer Herlinde Koelbl who was granted the honour to be the Leica Hall of Fame 2024 photographer. It is also featured in the exhibition Herlinde Koelbl– Leica Hall of Fame in the Leica Gallery Wetzlar. The motif has been printed in a special, limited edition and is available exclusively through our Leica Galleries.
Elliot Erwitt
The 2023 Leica Picture of the Year is an iconic image from renowned Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt, who has been honoured with the Leica Hall of Fame Award for his life’s work. The limited edition print of Bulldogs, which is only available through Leica Galleries, is one of Erwitt’s signature dog pictures. The truism that dogs and their owners often have visual similarities is taken to a curious extreme in this image taken in 2000.
Leica Picture of the Year 2022
The 2022 Leica Picture of the Year is an iconic image from Thomas Hoepker and was featured in the extensive retrospective ‘Image Maker’ at the Ernst Leitz Museum Wetzlar in early 2022. The photo was taken during a road trip that Hoepker took for a few months in 1963 when he was working for the magazine Kristall, assigned to explore the USA with both a curious and critical eye.
Leica Picture of the Year 2021
The first Leica Picture of the Year is a limited-edition print by Ralph Gibson, the winner of the Leica Hall of Fame Award 2021. Born in Los Angeles in 1939, Gibson is considered one of the most important and style-defining photographers of his generation.