The Leica Oskar Barnack Award, presented almost continuously since 1979, recognizes photography expressing the relationship between man and the environment. It was known as the Oskar Barnack Award when presented by

World Press Photo World Press Photo Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955, the organization is known for holding an annual press photography contest. Since 2011, World Press Photo has organized a ...

between 1979 and 1992, and has been known as the Leica Oskar Barnack Award while presented by

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since 1995.

History and purpose

The Oskar Barnack Award was presented by

for the years 1979 to 1992, in the following year.For evidence of hosting by World Press Photo and for the one-year lag, see the references provided for the table of winners within this article. It was named after

Oskar Barnack Oskar Barnack (Nuthe-Urstromtal, Brandenburg, 1 November 1879 – Bad Nauheim, Hesse, 16 January 1936) was a German inventor and photographer who built, in 1913, what would later become the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, sub ...

(1879–1936), designer of the first Leica camera, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. After a short hiatus, Leica (first the Leica Group but from shortly thereafter Leica Camera) resumed the award in 1995 and has continued it to date (2021). It is now more formally titled the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. The award is given to "professional 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 a minimum of 10 up to a maximum of 12 images".Leica Oskar Barnack Award
, leica-oskar-barnack-award.com. Accessed 25 May 2014. A "Newcomer Award", for photographers aged 25 and below, was added in 2009; a "Public Award", with submissions via i-shot-it.com, in 2014. The selection process does not demand that jurors recuse themselves from evaluating submissions by photographers from the same agency, for such a situation is not considered to present a juror with a conflict of interest.Pete Brook,
Conflict of interest within jury process? NOOR Images and Leica Oskar Barnack Award respond
, Prison Photography, 28 June 2011. Accessed 17 May 2014.

Winners, World Press Photo period (1979–1992)

Winners, Leica period (1995 to present)

In 2009, the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award was added. In 2014, the Leica Oskar Barnack Public Award was added.

Notes

References

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External links

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