LEICA CAMERA NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2012 OSKAR BARNACK AWARD
Entries may be submitted online through March 1, 2012
Solms, Germany (January 17, 2012) – Leica Camera AG announces the commencement of the 2012 Leica Oskar Barnack Award and invites professional photographers to submit entries to this prestigious international photography competition. Applications and photographic projects are now being accepted online through March 1, 2012 at www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com. The winners of the 2012 Leica Oskar Barnack Award and Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award will be announced over the course of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie festival held in Arles, France from July 2-8, 2012.
The highly esteemed accolade has been presented since 1979, the year marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leica inventor Oskar Barnack. The winner of the 2012 Leica Oskar Barnack Award will receive a Leica M9-P camera with lens worth approximately €10,000, in addition to a cash prize of €5,000. A second honor will be awarded in the category Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award for (aspiring) professional photographers aged 25 and under. The winner of the first prize in this section will also receive a Leica M9-P complete with lens.
An international jury presents the Leica Oskar Barnack and Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer awards to photographers whose unerring powers of observation capture and express the relationship between people and their environment in a portfolio of up to 12 images. Submissions must be a self-contained series of images in which the photographer perceives and documents the interaction between people and their environment with acute vision and contemporary visual style – creative, unobtrusive and groundbreaking.
The members of this year’s jury include: Bruce Gilden, Magnum Photographer, Stephan Erfurt, Director of C/O Berlin, Valérie Fougeirol, Creative Director of the Magnum Gallery in Paris, Karin Rehn-Kaufmann, Artistic Director of the Leica Galerie in Salzburg and Brigitte Schaller, Art Director of Leica Fotografie International Magazine.
