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Oskar Barnack Award 2017
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Special Edition Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017 LFI PHOTOGRAPHIE GMBH Springeltwiete 4, 20095 Hamburg www.lfi-online.de, mail@lfi-online.de ISSN: 0937-3977 Editors-in-chief: Inas Fayed, Frank P. Lohstöter Art Direction: Brigitte Schaller Editorial Office: Carla Susanne Erdmann, Katrin Iwanczuk, Bernd Luxa, Ulrich Rüter, Olaf Stefanus, Katrin Ullmann Layout: Thorsten Kirchhoff PHOTO EDITOR: Carol Körting TrANSLATION: Osanna Vaughn The magazine and all its written and pictorial content are copyrighted, and can not be reproduced without written permission. Leica – registered Trademark – 91869
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Preface Dear friends of photography,
There are quite a few facts concerning the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, one of the longest-running photo awards ever. Did you know it was set up in 1979, at a time when Leica Camera didn’t exist as a company, but as a product brand of Ernst Leitz GmbH, Wetzlar? Or that one of the most highly regarded photographers today, Sebastião Salgado, has won it twice – at a time when he was still relatively unknown? Artistically speaking, there are even more important facts: the series should include twelve pictures that tell a story, showing the togetherness and interaction of human beings and their surroundings. The winning pictures will all be exhibited in Berlin after the award ceremony on 13 September, and then in Leica Galleries around the world – there are now 17 of them! All this shows the dedication of Leica, its employees and the owners to our claim: Leica, das Wesentliche! (Leica, the essential!) Please look at the pictures closely, maybe in the spirit of a jury, and enjoy the art of photography – photography that can be seen as a lighthouse in the ocean of snapshots taken every day! We at Leica are committed to showing and promoting photography as one of the leading art forms of the 21st century. Yours, Andreas Kaufmann, Leica Camera AG
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Interview with Douglas So
Terje Abusdal 8 Slash & Burn 26
Patrick Willocq
You Cannot Pick a Stone with One Finger
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Aleksey Kondratyev
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Ice Fishers
Dominic Nahr Nothing to See Here
Ekaterina Sevrouk Fremd bin ich eingezogen
Yoann Cimier 58 Nomad’s Land 66
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Gideon Mendel Drowning World
Emilien Urbano War of a Forgotten Nation
Viktoria Sorochinski Lands of No-Return
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Clara Chichin
Under the Eyes that Few Minutes Exhaust
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Vera Torok
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Accidentally on Purpose
Sergey Melnitchenko Behind the Scenes
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Winners & Finalists 2017
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Winners 1980 – 2016 loba
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Oskar Barnack Award | 2017
Terje Abusdal Slash & Burn
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Patrick Willocq You Cannot Pick a Stone with One Finger
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Aleksey Kondratyev Ice Fishers
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Dominic Nahr Nothing to See Here
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Ekaterina Sevrouk Fremd bin ich eingezogen
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Yoann Cimier Nomad’s Land
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Gideon Mendel Drowning World
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Emilien Urbano War of a Forgotten Nation
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Viktoria Sorochinski Lands of No-Return
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Clara Chichin Under the Eyes that Few Minutes Exhaust
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Vera Torok Accidentally on Purpose
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Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer | 2017
Sergey Melnitchenko Behind the Scences
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