LEICA OSKAR BARNACK AWARD
The renowned photographic competition, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award will be celebrating its 30th year in 2009. On the occasion of this special jubilee, Leica Camera AG has revised the entry conditions and included numerous changes.
Entries for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award/Newcomers Award 2009 will be accepted as online submissions between 15 January and 1 March 2009.
A Newcomers Award will be incorporated in the competition for the first time. The competition for this award is open to all (prospective) photographers who are aged 25 years and under.
An international jury awards the Leica Oskar Barnack Award / Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award to 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 up to 12 images. Entry submissions must be a self-contained series of images in which the photographer perceives and documents the interaction between man and the environment with acute vision and contemporary visual style – creative, groundbreaking and unintrusive.
The winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award will receive 5,000 euros or, alternatively, Leica camera equipment to the same value. The winner of the Newcomer Award will be awarded 2,500 euros. The prizes will be presented in the course of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie photographic festival held in Arles, France.
All photo series submitted will be displayed in a special online gallery section of the Leica website for a period of time, ending with the request for entries for the new competition. All photographers have the possibility to be displayed in the online gallery under a “nickname”.
To Take Part
All entries for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2009 must be made via the online » Application Form between 15th January and 1st March, 2009.
The “Leica Oskar Barnack Award” competition is open to all professional photographers. To take part, participants must send in a series of photographs taken in 2008 or long-term projects containing at least one photo from 2008.
The “Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award” competition is open to any (prospective) professional photographer under 25 years of age at the time of entering. To take part, participants must send in a series of photographs taken in 2008 or long-term projects containing at least one photo from 2008.
The digital images prepared for uploading must be no larger than 1920 pixels wide and 1200 pixels high, but have to have at least one of these two maximum dimensions.
So an image with a height of 1200px may have any width less than or equal to 1920px and an image with a width of 1920px may have any height less than or equal to 1200px.
