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The selection process for the 46th Leica Oskar Barnack Award has begun, with new jury members assessing photo series that highlight the bond between humanity and the environment, culminating in an October 2026 ceremony.

The Oskar Barnack Awards (LOBA) are the highly prestigious photographic awards, with winners selected from over 300 submissions and judged by 120 experts in 50 countries. The winners were honoured at a celebration at the Leica headquarters in Wetzlar.

Each year the Leica Oscar Barnack Awards spotlights images from photographers around the world who capture the plight of those less fortunate than us.

This year the Leica Oscar Barnack (LOBA) photography contest, is being celebrated as part of the Leica Centenary celebrations under the banner of “100 Years of Leica: Witness to a Century”. 

The two winners of the Leica Oskar Barnack Awards 2024 (LOBA) are Davide Monteleone and Maria Guțu. Read more...

The shortlist of contenders for this year's Leica Oskar Barnack Award, LOBA 2024, has been announced. The list reflects a global photography community and its efforts to document the lived experiences of people from around the world.

The first photograph taken with a Leica camera, by its inventor Oskar Barnack, is of a scene in the town of Wetzlar, home of Leica. The scene, the Eisenmarkt, looks almost the same today as it did then, over a hundred years ago. So, naturally, any self-respecting Leica photographer wants to stand in the same spot that Barnack did, and take the same photo.

Ismail Ferdous and Ziyi Le have won the 2023 Leica Oskar Barnack Award for their respective series 'Sea Beach' and 'New Comer'.

Here's evidence that Leica's Oskar Barnack didn't sit twiddling his thumbs after cooking up the 35mm miniature camera. Far from it, he was beavering away on the Leica Vision Pro, virtual reality for the start of the war in 1914...

The jury for this year's Oskar Barnack Awards will meet in May to review contestants before the October prize announcement...

This year's winners in the Leica Barback Awards are Kiana Hayeri and Valentin Goppel

The forthcoming Leica Barnack Awards ceremony on October 20 could be the launch pad for the rumoured resurrection of the classic M6 film camera...