Tag: Wetzlar

Damir Faizulin wins the 2026 Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his Dagestan series, Laila AnnMarie Stevens takes the Newcomer prize, and Valentina Sinis receives the first LOBA Women Grant.

he Wall Street Journal profiles Leica as a rare European manufacturing success. We pick out the threads that matter to Leica enthusiasts, from the rescue of the company to hand-built M cameras.

Manchester Leica dealer David Stephens is rebuilding Oskar Barnack's 1934 workbench object by object, from a Siemens telephone to a Montblanc pencil. Chats Chatterjee hears how the finds came together.

A day at Leica's Wetzlar factory with Stefan Daniel, the outgoing 'Mister M', touring lens and camera production, the Ernst Leitz Museum, and hearing why film cameras never disappeared.

Leica Camera Group's revenue fell 3.8% to €573 million in 2025/26, as growth in Mobile and Photo offset a challenging year for exchange rates and customs regulations abroad.

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.

There's more than Leica to see in this beautiful and historic town of Wetzlar in the state of Hesse, in Germany. If you're making a pilgrimage here, stay a little longer and enjoy more of what this town offers.

The 100th anniversary of the Leica Camera in Wetzlar drew over 800 guests, culminating in a successful auction where record prices were achieved for rare cameras and lenses.

On 26 June 2025, Leica celebrated the 100th birthday of two original cameras, models 554 and 555, with a party at the factory. Ivor Cooper brought No. 555 to be reunited with No. 554

In a parallel universe, the last of the rangefinders is not made in Wetzlar, Germany, but in Bolton, England. Here is an alternative Witness to a Century...

There are many ways in which we can relate and connect to Leica. But one word keeps coming back as an important cornerstone of our relationship. And that word is "Community".

For Leica Camera, 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the Leica I. First presented to the public at the Leipzig Spring Fair in 1925, it was the first mass-produced Leica 35mm camera…