Organised by Leica Camera, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award awards 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.

There are two categories:

• Leica Oskar Barnack Award (open to professional photographers)
• Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award (open to all future professional photographers who are not older than 28 years)

Entry submissions must be a self-contained series of images in which the photographer perceives and documents the interaction between man and the environment with acute vision and contemporary visual style – creative, groundbreaking and innovative.

Participants must send in a series of photographs taken in 2018/2019 or long-term projects containing at least one photo from 2018. Only one entry per photographer is accepted.

Entries will be accepted exclusively as online submissions between March 1 and April 1, 2019. All digital images prepared for uploading must be 1200 pixels high. The width of the image is variable in proportion.

There is no entry fee.

Eligibility

Open to anyone worldwide.

Prize

The winner of the main category Leica Oskar Barnack Award receives a cash prize of 25,000 EUR (approx. 28,290 USD) and in addition a Leica M camera and lens worth 10,000 EUR (approx. 11,315 USD).

The winner in the category Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award receives a cash prize of 10,000 EUR and a Leica M camera and lens worth 10,000 EUR.

Ten finalists will be awarded each with a cash prize of 2,500 EUR (approx. 2,825 USD) for their series.