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The Leica Oskar Barnack Award, presented almost continuously since 1979, recognizes photography expressing the relationship between man and the environment. It was known as the Oskar Barnack Award when presented by World Press Photo between 1979 and 1992, and has been known as the Leica Oskar Barnack Award while presented by Leica Camera since 1995.

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History and purpose

The Oskar Barnack Award was presented by World Press Photo for the years 1979 to 1992, in the following year. [n 1] It was named after Oskar Barnack (1879–1936), designer of the first Leica camera, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.

After a short hiatus, Leica (first the Leica Group but from shortly thereafter Leica Camera) resumed the award in 1995 and has continued it to date (2021). It is now more formally titled the Leica Oskar Barnack Award.

The award is given to "professional photographers whose unerring powers of observation capture and express the relationship between man and the environment in the most graphic form in a sequence of a minimum of 10 up to a maximum of 12 images". [1]

A "Newcomer Award", for photographers aged 25 and below, was added in 2009; a "Public Award", with submissions via i-shot-it.com, in 2014. [1]

The selection process does not demand that jurors recuse themselves from evaluating submissions by photographers from the same agency, for such a situation is not considered to present a juror with a conflict of interest. [2]

Winners, World Press Photo period (1979–1992)

Year [n 2] WinnerSubject
1979Floris BergkampSea battle between Greenpeace and would-be dumpers of radioactive waste [3]
1980 Björn Larsson Ask  [ Wikidata ]An 8-year-old undergoing skin transplants after serious burns [4]
1981Wendy WatrissUS veterans of the Vietnam war suffering from the effects of exposure to Agent Orange [5]
1982Neil McGaheeTwo elderly brothers working as farmers [6]
1983Stormi GreenerThe life of Hattie Vaughn, aged 106 [7]
1984 Sebastião Salgado Famine in Ethiopia [8] [9]
1985 David C. Turnley Life in South Africa [10]
1986Jeff ShareThe Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament [11]
1987 Chris Steele-Perkins [12] Lives of Thalidomide victims [13]
1988 Charles Mason  [ Wikidata ] [14] Trapped Gray Whales in Alaska
1989Raphaël GaillardeResearch from a dirigible at the roof of the Amazon rainforest [15]
1990Barry LewisThe effects of pollution from a lampblack factory in Copșa Mică, Romania [16]
1991 Sebastião Salgado [17] Clearing up after sabotage of oilwells in Kuwait [18]
1992 Eugene Richards Drought in the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands [19]

Winners, Leica period (1995 to present)

YearWinnerTitle/[subject] [n 3] Remarks [n 3]
1995 Gianni Berengo Gardin [20] La disperata allegria [21]
1996 Larry Towell [20] [22]
1997 Jane Evelyn Atwood [20] [23]
1998 Fabio Ponzio [20] [24]
1999 Claudine Doury [20] [minorities in Siberia] [25]
2000 Luc Delahaye [20] Winterreise [people in Russia] [26]
2001 Bertrand Meunier  [ Wikidata ] [20] [social tensions in the north of China, 1999–2007] [27] [28]
2002 Narelle Autio [20] Coastal dwellers [Australians at the beach] [29] [30]
2003Andrea HoyerPlaces of memory [31] [32] Honourable mentions: Jan Grarup, [ refugees ]; Vanessa Winship, Albanian landscape [31]
2004Peter GranserConey Island [33] [34] Honourable mentions: Martin Kollar, Nothing special; Alex Majoli, Hotel Marinum [33]
2005 Guy Tillim Johannesburg story [35] [36] Honourable mention: Linn Schröder, Are you a frog? [35]
2006Tomás MunitaKabul: Leaving the shadows [37] [38] Honourable mention: James Whitlow Delano, Japan Mangaland [37]
2007Julio BittencourtIn a window of Prestes Maia 911 building [squatters in a building in São Paulo] [39] [40] Honourable mentions: José Cendón  [ Wikidata ], [psychiatric hospitals in East Africa]; Margaret M. de Lange, [the photographer's daughters] [39]
2008 Lucia Nimcová  [ Wikidata ]Unofficial [Nimcová's home town (Humenné, Slovakia)] [41] [42]

In 2009, the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award was added.

YearAwardNewcomer Award
WinnerTitle/[subject] [n 3] WinnerTitle/[subject] [n 3]
2009 Mikhael Subotzky Beaufort West[ Beaufort West , South Africa] [43] [44] [45] Dominic Nahr  [ Wikidata ]The road to nowhere [refugees in eastern DRC during the 2008 Nord-Kivu campaign] [45] [46]
2010 Jens Olof Lasthein Waiting for the future: Pictures from Abkhazia [47] [48] Andy Spyra  [ Wikidata ]Kashmir [indigenous population of Kashmir] [49] [50]
2011 Jan Grarup Haiti aftermath [51] [52] Huang Jing (artist) Pure of sight ["not dedicated to any subject in particular"] [53]
2012Frank Hallam DayAlumascapes ["recreational vehicles" in Florida] [54] [55] Piotr ZbierskiPass by me [fleeting encounters with people] [56] [57]
2013 Evgenia Arbugaeva Tiksi[ Tiksi , Arctic Russia] [58] [59] Ciril JazbecWaiting to move[ Shishmaref , Alaska, threatened by global warming] [60] [61]

In 2014, the Leica Oskar Barnack Public Award was added.

YearAwardNewcomer AwardPublic Award
WinnerTitle/[subject] [n 3] WinnerTitle/[subject] [n 3] WinnerTitle/[subject] [n 3]
2014 Martin Kollar Field trip [ambiguities in a militarized Israel] [62] Alejandro CegarraThe other side of the Tower of David [squatters in a tower block in Caracas] [63] [64] Tadas Cerniauskas [65] Comfort zone [people on the beach] [66]
2015 JH Engström [67] Tout Va BienWiktoria Wojciechowska [68] Short Flashes
2016Scarlett Coten [69] MectoubClémentine Schneidermann [70] [71] The Unbearable, the Sadness and the Rest
2017Terje AbusdalSlash & Burn [72] Sergey MelnitchenkoBehind the Scenes [73]
2018 Max Pinckers Red Ink [74] [75] Mary GelmanSvetlana [74] [75]
2019Mustafah Abdulaziz [76] Water Nanna Heitmann [77] Hiding from Baba Yaga
2020Luca Locatelli [78] [79] Future StudiesGonçalo Fonseca [79] [80] New Lisbon

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ For evidence of hosting by World Press Photo and for the one-year lag, see the references provided for the table of winners within this article.
  2. ↑ During the World Press Photo period, awards seem to have been identified with the year of entry submission, and conferred in the following year. Thus the Leica page that lists these ("Winner 2002–1979") describes most as for one year later, and so for example Bergkamp is described as the winner for 1980. (There appears to be a further complexity involving the award for Eugene Richards.)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 In italics: title; [in brackets]: subject.

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