The Dr. Erich Salomon Award (Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Preis), dedicated to

Erich Salomon Erich Salomon (28 April 1886 – 7 July 1944) was a German Jewish news photographer known for his pictures in the diplomatic and legal professions and the innovative methods he used to acquire them. Life and work Born in Berlin, Salomon studied ...

, is a lifetime achievement award for photojournalists given by the German Society for Photography (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, DGPh).

Winners

*1971 ''

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'' magazine *1972 ''du'' magazine *1973 ''

Avenue Avenue or Avenues may refer to: Roads * Avenue (landscape), traditionally a straight path or road with a line of trees, in the shifted sense a tree line itself, or some of boulevards (also without trees) * Avenue Road, Bangalore * Avenue Road, ...

'' magazine *1974 ''

Epoca Epoca may refer to: Media * ''Epoca'' (magazine), Italian news magazine published, 1950–1997 * ''Época'' (Brazilian magazine), Brazilian news magazine established in 1998 * ''Época'' (Spanish magazine), Spanish weekly news magazine, 1985– ...

'' magazine *1975 ''Personenbeschreibung'' (

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

series) *1976 '' Zeitmagazin'' *1977 magazine *1978 ''

National Geographic ''National Geographic'' (formerly the ''National Geographic Magazine'', sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is a popular American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. Known for its photojournalism, it is one of the most widely ...

'' magazine *1979 *1980 ''

Geo Geo- is a prefix derived from the Greek word ''γη'' or ''γαια'', meaning "earth", usually in the sense of "ground or land”. GEO or Geo may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''GEO'' (magazine), a popular scientific magazine ...

'' magazine *1981 Picture service of Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) *1982 World Press Photo *1983

Lotte Jacobi Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyn ...

- *1984 '' Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin'' *1985

Robert Frank Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled ''The Americans'', earned Frank comparisons to a modern-da ...

*1986 Peter Magubane *1987 *1988 Sebastião Salgado *1989

Barbara Klemm Barbara Klemm (born 27 December 1939 in Münster) is a German press photographer. She worked for ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' for 45 years. She photographed many of the most important events in recent German history and has received honors, ...

*1990 Cristina García Rodero *1991

Robert Lebeck Robert Lebeck (21 March 1929 – 14 June 2014) was an award-winning German photojournalist. Biography At the age of fifteen Lebeck was drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Eastern Front where he was captured as a POW by the Soviet Army. ...

*1992/1993 Don McCullin *1994 Mary Ellen Mark *1995

Gilles Peress Gilles Peress (born December 29, 1946) is a French photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. Peress began working with photography in 1970, having previously studied political science and philosophy in Paris. One of Peress' first projects exa ...

*1996 *1997 Peter Hunter (né Otto Salomon, son of Dr. Erich Salomon) *1998

René Burri René Burri (9 April 1933 – 20 October 2014) was a Swiss photographer. Burri was a member of Magnum Photos and photographed major political, historical and cultural events and key figures of the second half of the 20th century. He made portrai ...

*1999

Eva Besnyö Éva Besnyő (1910–2003) was a Dutch-Hungarian photographer who participated in the ''Nieuwe Fotografie'' (New Photography) movement. Biography Born in Budapest, Besnyö was brought up in a well-to-do Jewish home. In 1928, she started to study ...

*2000 Arno Fischer *2001

Herlinde Koelbl Herlinde Koelbl (born 31 October 1939) is a German photographic artist, author and documentary filmer. Her comprehensive work is characterized above all by long-term photographic projects, often complemented by in-depth interviews. She is particu ...

*2002 Reporters sans frontières *2003

John G. Morris John Godfrey Morris (December 7, 1916 – July 28, 2017) was an American picture editor, author and journalist, and an important figure in the history of photojournalism. Early life and family background Morris was born on December 7, 1916 in ...

*2004 Will McBride *2005 Horst Faas *2006

Martin Parr Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in p ...

*2007

Letizia Battaglia Letizia Battaglia (; 5 March 1935 – 13 April 2022) was an Italian photographer and photojournalist. Although her photos document a wide spectrum of Sicilian life, she is best known for her work on the Mafia. A documentary film based on her lif ...

*2008 Anders Petersen *2009 Sylvia Plachy *2010

Michael von Graffenried Michael von Graffenried (born 1957) is a Swiss photographer living and working between Paris, Brooklyn NY and Switzerland. He started working as a photojournalist in 1978, travelling the world for numerous publications. Today he works ...

*2011 Heidi and Hans-Jürgen Koch *2012

Peter Bialobrzeski Peter Bialobrzeski (born 1961 in Wolfsburg, West Germany) is a photographer and a professor of photography at the University of the Arts Bremen in Germany. Bialobrzeski originally studied politics and sociology in Germany before he studied photogr ...

*2013

Paolo Pellegrin Paolo Pellegrin (born March 11, 1964) is a photojournalist. He was born in Rome, Italy, into a family of architects. He is a member of the Magnum Photos agency and has won ten World Press Photo awards. Biography Pellegrin studied architecture a ...

*2014 Gerd Ludwig *2015 Josef Koudelka *2016: Rolf Nobel *2017: Antanas Sutkus *2019:

Stephanie Sinclair Stephanie Sinclair (born 1973) is an American photojournalist who focuses on gender and human-rights issues such as child marriage and self-immolation. Her work has been included in ''The New York Times'', ''Time Magazine'' and ''National Geograp ...

*2020: Chris KillipChris Killip is being honoured with the Dr. Erich Salomon Award
(PDF), DGPh (German Photographic Society), 25 September 2020.

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