Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017 - call for entries
Entries are now open for the 2017 Leica Oskar Barnack Awards, with a category for established professionals as well as up-and coming photographers under the age of 25 – the Newcomer Award.
The competition calls for the submission of self-contained series of between ten and twelve images in which the photographers perceive and document the interaction between people and their environment in a creative and ground-breaking style. Eligible for submission are series of photographs captured in 2016 and 2017 or work from long-term projects including at least some photographs made during this period.
As in the previous year, the presentation of the awards to the winners in both categories of the 37th Leica Oskar Barnack Award will take place in the course of a gala event in Berlin. Entries close 10 April 2017.
This year’s jury members are:
- Karin Rehn-Kaufmann, Art Director &Chief Representative Leica Galleries International (Salzburg, Austria)
- Michelle Dunn Marsh, Executive Director, Photographic Center Northwest; Publisher, Minor Matters Books (Seattle, USA)
- Christian Pohlert, Managing Picture Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Frankfurt, Germany)
- Douglas So, Founder and Director of F11 Foto Museum (Hong Kong, China)
- Scarlett Coten, Photographer and Winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2016 (Paris, France)
The winner in the main category will receive a cash prize of 25,000 euros and Leica M-System equipment (a camera and lens), valued at an additional 10,000 euros. The winner of the Newcomer Award will receive a cash prize of 10,000 euros and will also receive a Leica rangefinder camera and lens. Additionally, ten further submissions to the competition will each receive prizes of 2,500 euros.
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