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Joseph Rodríguez
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Over 30 000 photographers present more than 700 000 pictures in the LFI Gallery. This issue includes a corona flower, a snap shot in pink, a sunny afternoon, and wafting hair
Huawei have released the latest generation of their flagship smartphone model, whose Quad Camera, developed together with Leica, now offers larger sensors and a higher resolution
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88 | LEICA D-LUX 7 Black elegance: initially released at the end of 2018 with a silver top plate and lens body, Leica’s high-end compact camera is now also available with an all-black exterior
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Suzan Pektaş, from her Dreams the Black Sea series
90 | FINE ART PRINT Part two of our series on fine art printing is dedicated to matte, heavy-weight papers, whose smooth surface is renowned for its ability to render delicate colour tones
Sheila Metzner 6 | LEICA CLASSIC
Atmospheric, magical scenarios and complex staging define the timeless oeuvre of the New York photographer. We pay tribute
Joseph Rodríguez 20 | EAST SIDE STORIES
The Leica D-Lux 7 – now also available as an all-black variant
Tough boys with a sense of family: at the end of the nineties, Rodríguez photographed the private sphere of street gangs in Los Angeles
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After 25 years, the photographer returned to Bulgaria, the land of her childhood. A journey down memory lane in the Black Sea region
Launched in honour of the centenary of Leica developer Oskar Barnack, the Award bearing his name was christened in 1980. We look back 108 | BOOKS New publications by Luis Cobelo, Paul Almasy, Charlie Koolhaas, François-Marie Banier, Jörg Brüggemann, and Tobias Kruse 1 1 0 | I N T E RV I E W In just a few years, business man Silvio Frota has put together one of the largest photographic collections in Brazil. His mission is to educate 114 | MY PICTURE A picture that was reminiscent of a doll’s house she played with as a child, gave Sayuri Ichida back her self-confidence as a photographer 114 | IMPRINT
Juan Cristobal Cobo 5 4 | C I C LOV Í A
Empty streets open to pedestrians, inline skaters and cyclists: in Bogotá, Ciclovía means Sunday mornings without traffic
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Betties set the stage for a fashion shoot featuring a young model, in an old apartment in Athens, filled with historic furnishings
COVER: Joseph Rodríguez, picture from his series East Side Stories
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Many of her models were members of her family – an artfully arranged study with her daughter, Bega, 1982
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Joseph RodrĂguez EAST SIDE STORIES
Drug dealing, violence and drive-by shootings: the fact that daily life behind the gangster scene in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, causes much less of a sensation than might be expected and is even familiar, was documented by Rodriguez at the beginning of the 90s.
First generation Evergreen members, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles 1993
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D R E AM S T H E B L AC K S E A After 25 years, Pektaş returned to the land of her childhood, where she fused her memories, her grandpa’s stories and the reality she found there, producing a dream-like journey through the Black Sea region.
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Juan Cristóbal Cobo C I C L OV Í A
A city without bumperto-bumper traffic – what a dream! Since the seventies, the Colombian capital, Bogotá, has been a forerunner in questions of reduced traffic, once a week transforming its highways into promenades. Juan Cristóbal Cobo has recorded the spectacle.
“Ciclovía means access. Access to places where you can practice sports; to places where you can let go and enjoy life.”
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Diane Betties DE MA MĂˆRE
The photographer went to Athens in search of lesser-known settings. A stroke of luck landed her the jackpot: an old building with nostalgic charm, where her newcomer model could enjoy complete freedom.
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Above: 47 mm, f/3.2, 1/6329 s, ISO 50, EV -1.1; left page: 27 mm, f/1.9, 1/16666 s, ISO 500
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HAKEA L AU R I N A “On my street there’s a hakea laurina, an unpretentious tree – until it blossoms. Because of its characteristic flower it’s also called a pin-cushion hakea. This year I noticed how similar the flower looks to the coronavirus, which is why I’ve given this picture the title Coronaflower.” Brian Hart Leica M10 with TeleElmarit 90 f/2.8
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“Brussels during the first week of lockdown: my girlfriend was working on book-binding. I took advantage of the wonderful lighting to take some photographs, and when she heard the typical noise of the camera, she turned around and gifted me with this lovely composition.”
“During the Symbiotic Seeing exhibition in Zurich, there was a serious amount of people traffic in front of this installation by the DanishIcelandic artist Ólafur Elíasson. It really took a lot of patience for me to capture this picture in the way I had imagined it.”
Christopher de Bethune Leica M6 with Summicron-C 40 f/2
Philipp Weinmann Leica Q2, Summilux 28 f/1.7 Asph
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P H O TO – B O O K S – E X H I B I T I O N S – F E S T I VA L S – AWA R D S –
In 2013 the award went to Evgenia Arbugaeva for her series about the small, north Siberian town of Tiksi
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Do you remember the magical pictures taken by Evgenia Arbugaeva in Siberia? How about the curious Field Trip series by Martin Kollar? The thing these two photographers have in common is that they have both been recipients of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. In 2013, the prize went to the Russian photographer who convinced the jury with her Tiksi series about the north Siberian city of the same name. The following year the Slovak photographer won the award for a series that was photographed in Israel. Looking back over the forty-year history of the competition, we see that win-
ners of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) have delved into an exciting diversity of stories produced with differing styles of imagery. This commemorative year of 2020, offers the perfect opportunity for retrospection, and, as part of the preparations for the jubilee, the LOBA website is being continuously updated and overhauled. All former winners can be found there, with pictures, texts and interviews. In addition to the important socio-political aspects and photographic themes covered, the award-winning series from the past four decades
represent as a whole a vivid archive of the history of photojournalism. In 1979, when Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH decided to launch a competition in honour of the centenary of Oskar Barnack, the inventor and pioneer of 35mm photography, the world of international photojournalism looked very different. At the time, big photo magazines still existed and the possibilities of being published were enormous. First granted in 1980, the LOBA was initially presented together with the Dutch World Press Photo Foundation award, which had been honouring the best →
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Classics and new discoveries: a selection showing the diversity of LOBA winners over the past four decades. Clockwise: Fabio Ponzio (Italy, 1998); Martin Kollar (Slovakia, 2014); Gianni Berengo Gardin (Italy, 1995); Peter Granser (Germany, 2004)
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