Publications

LOBA Catalogue 2023

The LOBA Catalogue 2023 is now available: on 146 pages with 118 images and index, not only the two winners Ismail Ferdous and Ziyi Le are presented, but also the other ten candidates of the LOBA Shortlist 2023 with their complete image series and background information. This time, the following photographers are included: Eric Bouvet, Johanna-Maria Fritz, Natela Grigalashvili, Jonas Kakó, Edu León, Rania Matar, Gustavo Minas, Seamus Murphy, Jordi Ruiz Cirera und Laetitia Vançon.

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LOBA Catalogue 2022

The LOBA Catalogue 2022 is now available: on 146 pages with 234 images, not only the two winners Kiana Hayeri and Valentin Goppel are presented, but also the other ten candidates of the LOBA Shortlist 2022 with their complete image series and background information. This time, the following photographers are included: Lynsey Addario, Irene Barlian, Alessandro Cinque, the DOCKS Collective, Nanna Heitmann, M'hammed Kilito, Léonard Pongo, Victoria Razo, Felipe Romero Beltrán and Rafael Vilela.

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LOBA Catalogue 2021

In addition to this year's LOBA winner Ana María Arévalo Gosen and the newcomer Emile Ducke, also the series of the entire LOBA Shortlist 2021 are presented on 146 pages. This time, the following photographers are included: Enri Canaj, Gabriele Galimberti, Graciela Magnoni, Santi Palacios, Nicolò Filippo Rosso, Nichole Sobecki, Nikita Teryoshin, Kiliii Yuyan as well as newcomers: Tom Hegen, Ingmar Björn Nolting and Ranita Roy.

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LOBA Catalogue 2020: Forty Years Of Leica Oskar Barnack Award

The full collection of LOBA winners and newcomer award winners in 208 pages. With rich imagery and well-founded texts, the catalogue offers comprehensive insight into the renowned Leica Oskar Barnack Award. An index with all the pictures from the winning series completes the publication. Also included are the 2020 winning series by Italian photographer Luca Locatelli, and newcomer series by Portuguese photographer Gonçalo Fonseca.

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LOBA Magazine 2019

The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2019 was given to the American photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz for his ‘Water' series. Winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer 2019 is Nanna Heitmann, Germany, for her series ‘Hiding from Baba Yaga'.

Including finalists 2019: Francesco Anselmi, Enayat Asadi, Mustafa Hassona, Sebastian Wells, Rafael Heygster, Tadas Kazakevičius, Michal Solarski, Tomas van Houtryve, Snezhana von Büdingen, Willner – Olsson

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LOBA Magazine 2018

The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2018 was given to the Belgian photographer Max Pinckers for his ‘Red Ink' series. Winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer 2018 is Mary Gelman, Russia, for her series ‘Svetlana'.

Including finalists 2018: Stéphane Lavoué, Turi Calafato, Stephen Dock, Christian Werner, Elsa Stubbé, Kechun Zhang, Samuel Gratacap, Ernesto Benavides, Vanja Bucan, Daniel Chatard

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LOBA Magazine 2017

The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017 was given to the Norwegian photographer Terje Abusdal for his ‘Slash & Burn' series. Winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer 2017 is Sergey Melnitchenko, Ukraine, for his series ‘Behind the Scenes'.

Including finalists 2017: Clara Chichin, Yoann Cimier, Aleksey Kondratyev, Gideon Mendel, Dominic Nahr, Ekaterina Sevrouk, Viktoria Sorochinski, Vera Torok, Emilien Urbano, Patrick Willocq

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LOBA Magazine 2016

Scarlett Coten is honoured with the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2016 for her project titled „Mectoub“. Winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer 2016 is Clémentine Schneidermann for her series „The Unbearable, the Sadness and the Rest“.

Including finalists 2016: Esther Teichmann, Sadegh Souri, Giulio Piscitelli, Max Pinckers, Stéphane Lavoué, Guillaume Herbaut, Vincent Delbrouck, William Daniels, Fulvio Bugani, Juan Pablo Bellandi

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LOBA Magazine 2015

With his photographic story “Tout Va Bien” the Swedish photographer JH Engström won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2015. The 24 year old Wiktoria Wojciechowska shows cyclists in the incessant rain in her series “Short Flashes” and achieved the Newcomer Award 2015.

Including finalists 2015: Fabio Bucciarelli, Anastasia Vlasova , Anni Leppälä, Igor Pisuk, Helge Skodvin, Bieke Depoorter, Guillaume Martial, Danila Tkachenko, Matt Wilson

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LOBA Magazine 2014

The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2014 was given to the Slovak photographer Martin Kollar for his ‘Field Trip' series taken in Israel. The office building 'Torre de David', occupied by Chávez supporters in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, is shown in Alejandro Cegarra’s series who won the Newcomer Award 2014.

Including finalists 2014: Francesco Anselmi, Ben Brody, Patrick Willocq, Max Cabello Orcasitas, Ilan Godfrey, Alvaro Deprit, Emeric Lhuisset, Alfonso Moral, Alisa Resnik 

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LOBA Magazine 2013

In 2013 the Russian photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva documented a fairytale journey to her childhood’s roots by picturing the Arctic Ocean and won the Oskar Barnack Award. The reportage “Waiting to Move” by Ciril Jazbec, expressing an Alaskan island threatened by the effects of climate change, was honoured with the Newcomer Award 2013.

Including finalists 2013: Arnau Bach, Ilona Szwarc, Michael Meyersfeld, Fabio Bucciarelli, Tomasz Gudzowaty, Paolo Marchetti, Javier Arcenillas, Mikel Aristregi, Ebrahim Noroozi 

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LOBA Magazine 2012

The US photographer and 2012’s winner Frank Hallam Day used staged pictures to document people’s alienation to nature in his series “Alumascapes”. Newcomer Award 2012 went to Piotr Zbierski. With “Pass by me” he shows unusual and nearly unearthly black & white images of an inner and outer journey.

Including finalists 2012: Tamas Dezso, Arnhel de Serra, Michael Goldberg, K  onstantin Salomatin, Michael Christopher Brown, Fausto Podavini, Jason Andrew, Michael Frank

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LOBA Magazine 2011

By showing great empathy for the horrific suffering after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti Jan Grarup won the Oskar Barnack Award in 2011 with “Haiti Aftermath”. Jing Huang achieved the Newcomer Award 2011 for his highly poetic instances picturing everyday things and situations in “Pure of Sight”.

Including finalists 2011: Tomas van Houtryve, Eddie Gerald, Guillaume Herbaut, Kacper Kowalski, Christian Muhrbeck , Alnis Stakle, Tomasz Wiech, Carsten Stormer 

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