Attention Photographers: Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2014

Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2014: calls for submissions from professional photographers
Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2014: calls for submissions from (prospective) photographers aged 25 and under
Deadline: 31 Jan 2014
From the Leica Oskar Barnack Award’s open call:
An international jury awards the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 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. 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 unintrusive. Only one entry per photographer is accepted.
The winner of the “Leica Oskar Barnack Award” receives a Leica M camera and a lens worth 10,000 Euros in addition to a cash prize of 10,000 Euros. The winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award receives a Leica rangefinder camera and a lens worth 10,000 Euros and a cash prize of 5,000 Euros.
The renowned photographic competition, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award has been announced annually since the year 1979. Entries (professional photographers only) for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2014 are accepted as online submissions between 15 December and 31 January 2014. Entries for the Leica Oskar Barnack NEWCOMER Award are addressed to all (prospective) photographers aged 25 years and under.
For detailed information on contest rules and application form, please visit Leica Oskar Barnack Award’s website.