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Over 20 000 photographers present over 250 000 pictures at the LFI Gallery. This issue includes a neon taxi in Hong Kong and the joy of reading on a train platform
Four years after the introduction of the M240, Leica’s M10 adds a new dimension to the M system: analogue purity on a digital foundation
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92 | Leica sofort At first he was confused by the camera’s simplicity, then he discovered the fun to be had with it: Craig Semetko experiments with Leica’s instant camera
112 | Exhibitions
Fulvio Bugani used the new M10 to continue with his Cuba project
96 | 28mm-summaron At the end of 2016, Leica surprised the market with a replica of a lens that was over sixty years old: looking back to the original and its times 98 | Smartphones The struggle against limited space: how manufacturers try to overcome the limited capacities of smartphone cameras
Giovanni Del Brenna
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The winners of the LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards
Faceless yet expressive: Del Brenna photographed poses and gestures at Paris Photo 2016
115 | Leica Galleries
Jo Fischer 2 2 | i n Sy k e
A residency took the Berlin photographer to the small town of Syke in Germany. A rapprochement
Tomeu Coll 3 2 | n e v e r m i n d i n s ov i e t l a n d
Once a stronghold of coal mining, now a ghost town in the middle of nowhere in the Ural Mountains: Vorkuta The new Leica M10: looking back and stepping forward
William Eggleston at the Foam gallery in Amsterdam; Alec Soth at the FOMU in Antwerp; Eli Lotar at the Jeu de Paume in Paris; and Viviane Sassen at the MOCP in Chicago
Leica M 10 4 4 | Three photographers, one camera
Fulvio Bugani, William Daniels and Matt Stuart – out and about with the new Leica M10
Zachary Roberts 6 2 | a n A m e r c i a n fa m i ly
An overview of the programme of Leica Galleries around the world, including Werner Bischof, Joel Meyerowitz and Ara Güler 116 | Books New books by Mark Neville, Kirill Golovchenko, Ragnar Axelsson, Birte Kaufmann and Sid Grossman 1 1 8 | I n t e rv i e w Photographer Rune Eraker, curator for the European Photo Exhibition Award, speaks about political photojournalism 122 | My picture In just 30 seconds, Stéphane Lavoué captured an intense portrait of Vladimir Putin 122 | imprint
In 2006 his brother ran amok in an Amish school. Years later Roberts tries to process what happened
Ed van der Elsken 74 | C a m e r a i n l o v e
Time and again street photography: Ed van der Elsken, one of the most significant Dutch photographers
Cover photo: Giovanni Del Brenna, from his Paris Photo 2016 series
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With a mixture of intense portraits and landscape images, the Berlin photographer captures the mood in a small, introspective town in northern Germany: a merging of documentation and staged art.
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Amidst the barren tundra, cut off from the rest of the world, Stalin had a town built on the site of a major coal seam. For a long time, Vorkuta was synonymous with forced labour. Today the town’s declining population tries to wrest a new identity from the industrial mono culture they inherited.
The last lived-in house in Yur-Shor, a suburb of Vorkuta. As a result of the coal crisis, the school, shops, cinema and pharmacy have closed down. Those who stay either have no other choice, or hold on to the hope for better days to come lFI
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Three photographers, one camera, one conclusion: the new Leica M10 is an uncompromising refinement of the principles of digital rangefinder photography.
Fulvio Bugani cuba: m y pa ss i o n
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Zachary Roberts A n Amer i c a n Fa m i ly
In 2006 one of the photographer’s brothers ran amok in an Amish school in Pennsylvania. The shock for his family was no less than for everyone else, leaving behind a deep sense of perplexity. It was not until ten years later that Zachary Roberts was able to use photography to help process the trauma.
This picture reminds Roberts of the five girls murdered by his brother. They are more or less the same age as the murdered girls would have been had they lived
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Ed van der Elsken C a mer a i n L ov e
Considered to be the most important Dutch photographer, Ed van der Elsken (1925–1990) is best known as a proponent of street photography, but his current exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam goes far beyond that, offering a comprehensive overview of his multi-faceted body of work.
The street is a perfect stage: this snapshot was taken around lunchtime on a summer’s day with a Leica and zoom lens; Beethovenstraat, Amsterdam, 1967
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H ava n a , Cuba Symphony in blue or visit Havana as long as it’s still there. One of those famous old-timers has broken down. “A photo that a tourist could have taken on any street corner.” But not this specific image, because the ruins are gone and a new hotel is being built there. Volker Figueredo Véliz Leica M9-P, Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 Asph
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