The Nominators
Around 60 respected photography experts from 34 countries, including curators, gallery managers, art directors, picture editors and numerous photographers, submitted their entries for the LOBA 2022/main category as nominators:
Isabel Amado (Brazil), Curator
Martina Bacigalupo (France), Picture Editor, Revue 6Mois
Ofir Barak (Israel), Photographer
Pablo Bartholomew (India), Photographer
Paulina Benthede (Sweden), Global Director of Exhibitions, Fotografiska
Julio Bittencourt (Brazil), Photographer and LOBA Newcomer winner 2007
Manila Camarini (Italy), Director of photography Republica
Claudio Carreras (Spain), Photo editor
Alejandro Cegarra (Venezuela), Photographer and LOBA Newcomer winner 2014
Gintaras Česonis (Lithania), Curator at Kaunas Photography Gallery
Virunan Chiddaycha (Thailand), Lecturer, Photographer and Artist
Stefen Chow (China), Director, Photographer
Julia Durkin (New Zealand), Director of Auckland Festival of Photography
Christine de Grancy (Austria), Photographer
Rodolphe de Spoelberch (Belgium), Director and founder at Arthus Gallery and Hangar H18 art center
Simindokht Dehghani (Iran), Director of Ag Galerie, Teheran
Benedetta Donato (Italy), Curator, Director of RCIPA (Romano Cagnoni International Photojournalism Award)
Yasemin Elçi (Luxembourg and Turkey), Curator and Journalist
Gonçalo Fonseca (Portugal), Photographer and LOBA Newcomer winner 2020
Alice Gabriner (USA), Photo Editor
Markus Hartmann (Germany), Founder of Hartmann Books and Hartmann Projects
Mathias Heng (Singapore), Photojournalist and instructor
Tul Hirunyalawaan (Thailand), Photoartist and Founder of @sungkrohsang (School of Photographic Arts Bangkok)
Ciril Jazbec (Slovenia), Photographer and LOBA Newcomer winner 2013
Christian Jungwirth (Austria), Photographer
Vilma Jurkute (United Arab Emirates), Executive Director of Alserkal avenue and arts foundation
Gary Knight (United Kingdom), Founder of VII Agency
Matjaz Krivic (Slovenia), Photographer
Lois Lammerhuber (Austria), Founder of Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo and owner of Edition Lammerhuber
Eyal Landesman (Israel), Founder and Artistic Director of PHOTO IS:RAEL
Olivier Laurent (USA), International Photo Editor, The Washington Post
Steven Lee (Malaysia), Photographer and founder director of Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards
Sarah Leen (USA), Founder and Editor of the Visual Thinking Collective
Jose Luis Amores (Spain), Director of EFTI, Centro Internacional De Fotografía y Cine
Sebastian Gil Miranda (Argentina), Documentary photographer, filmmaker, visual artist and founder member of Photographers for Change
Igor Mukhin (Russia), Photographer and teacher at Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
Saeed Nassouri (United Arab Emirates), Photographer
Naoko Ohta (Japan), Founder of NPO Tokyo-GA
Silvia Omedes (Spain), Curator, photo editor and director of Photographic Social Vision Foundation Barcelona
Søren Pagter (Denmark), Head of photojournalism education, Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX)
Jens Pepper (Poland), Writer, curator and photographer
Max Pinckers (Belgium), Photographer and LOBA Newcomer winner 2018
Christian Popkes (Germany), Artistic director at PHOTOPIA Hamburg
Rui Prata (Portugal), Director of Imago Festival, Lisbon
Rebecca Anne Procter (United Arab Emirates), Journalist, cultural advisor, formerly editor in chief of Harper’s bazaar art & interiors
Isidro Ramirez (Singapore), Lecturer, School of Design Communication at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
Arianna Rinaldo (Portugal), Curator PhEST (Festival internazionale di fotografia e arte Monopoli, Italy)
Malin Schulz (Germany), Art Director and member of the editorial board of Die Zeit
Jae-Hyun Seok (Korea), Curator
Laura Serani (France), Curator, author. Director of the Festival Planches Contact, Deauville and president of the jury for the Fondation Les Treilles
Horst Stasny (Austria), Photographer
Barbara Stauss (Switzerland), Photoeditor mareverlag
Enrico Stefanelli (Italy), Artistic director, Photolux Festival
Gilles Steinmann (Switzerland), Director of Photography, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Gaia Tripoli (Italy), Photo editor, The New York Times
István Virágvölgyi (Hungary), Photo editor, curator and secretary of the Robert Capa Photography Grand Prize Hungary
Vineet Vohra (India), Photographer
James Wellford (USA), Senior photo editor for global issues at National Geographic
Alexander Zemlianichenko (Russia), Chief photographer for the Moscow bureau of The Associated Press and Pulitzer Prize winner
This year, for the first time, the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award will be selected in cooperation with and through the proposals of international institutions and universities from 15 countries:
Australia: RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) University´s School of Art
Austria: Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
China: Fudan University School of Journalism Shanghai
Germany: Hochschule Hanover, University of Applied Sciences and Art, Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
France: École nationale supérieure de la photographie (ENSP) Arles
Italy: Raffles Milano
Japan: Tokyo Polytechnic University
Korea: Chung-Ang University, Seoul
Russia: Rodchenko Art School, Moscow
Spain: Centro Internacional de Fotografía y Cine (EFTI), Madrid
Peru: Centro de la Imagen, Minaflores
Puerto Rico: University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
United Kingdom: London College of Communication
USA: University of California, Berkeley
Vietnam: University of Theater and Performing Arts of Hanoi