23. 2. 2015
Are you professional photographer or newcomer to the profession? Submit your work for the contest! The winner will be presented with a cash prize of 25,000 euros and Leica M-System equipment (a camera and lens) valued at an additional 10,000 euros.
Online applications will be accepted between 15 January and 1 March 2015.
The entry forms and terms and conditions of entry are available here
In addition to the main category, there is also a newcomer prize for up-and-coming photographers aged 25 and under. The winner here will be presented with a cash prize of 5,000 euros and a Leica rangefinder camera and lens.
The winners will be chosen in a selection process by an international jury of experts. In their assessment of the entries, the jury members pay particular attention to the photographer’s unerring powers of observation and how they express the relationship between man and the environment in vivid form in a portfolio of up to twelve images. The best entries will be presented online from 1 April 2015. The awards will be presented in the course of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie photographic festival held in Arles, in the south of France, from 6 to 12 July 2015. A special issue of LFI magazine presenting the winners and finalists and numerous illustrations of their works will be published to accompany the awards.
The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2015 will also see the presentation of an audience award for a winner determined by voting online at www.i-shot-it.com, the online platform for photographic competitions. Voting begins in April 2015. The winner in this category will receive a cash prize of 2,500 euros. A prize draw for non-cash prizes of Leica compact cameras will also be held for all those who participated in the vote.