The Nominators
Around 60 respected photography experts from 34 countries – including curators, gallery managers, art directors, picture editors and numerous photographers – made up the body of nominators who submitted entries for the LOBA 2023 main category award:
Rahaab Allana (India), Curator, Publisher, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in New Delhi
José Luis Amores (Spain), Director of EFTI
Mariama Attah (United Kingdom), Curator of Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
Ofir Barak (Israel), Photographer
Pablo Bartholomew (India), Photographer
Dimitri Beck (France), Director of Photography Polka Magazine
Daniel Boetker-Smith (Australia), Director of Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne
Manila Camarini (Italy), Senior Picture Editor, D la Repubblica (DLUI)
Zelda Cheatle (United Kingdom), Curator, Editor
Patricia Conde (Mexico), Gallerist
Simindokht Dehghani (Iran), Director of Ag Galeria, Teheran
Benedetta Donato (Italy), Curator, Editor, Director of RCA (Romano Cagnoni Award)
Julia Durkin (New Zealand), Director of Auckland Festival of Photography
Yasemin Elçi (Turkey), Curator and Journalist
Gonçalo Fonseca (Portugal), Photographer and LOBA Newcomer winner 2020
Alice Gabriner (USA), Photo Editor
Sebastian Gil Miranda (Argentina), Documentary Photographer, Filmmaker, Visual Artist
Laura González Flores (Mexico), Research, Contemporary Art and Photography at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Tarlan Gorchu (Azerbaijan), Publisher, Founder of the Baku Marionette Theatre, Photographer
Yumi Goto (Japan), Curator, Editor, Consultant
Ha Dao (Vietnam), Editor, Program Coordinator Matca
David Hagger (Australia), Curator
Markus Hartmann (Germany), Founder of Hartmann Books and Hartmann Projects
He Yining (China), Curator, Writer
Mathias Heng (Singapore), Photographer
Zeynab Jahan (Azerbaijan), Curator, Editor, Author
Ciril Jazbec (Slovenia), Photographer and LOBA Newcomer winner 2013
Jeong Eun Kim (South Korea), Publisher
Sunyoung Kim (South Korea), Curator, Creative Director
Simone Klein (Germany), Independent appraiser and advisor specializing in Photography
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
Lau Tung-Pui (Hong Kong), Curator
Olivier Laurent (USA), International Photo Editor, The Washington Post
Steven Lee (Malaysia), Photographer, Director of the Kuala Lumpur Photography Awards
Sarah Leen (USA), Photo Editor
Missla Libsekal (Canada), Writer, Curator, Founder Another Africa
Igor Mukhin (Russia), Photographer and Teacher at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
Saeed Nassouri (United Arab Emirates), Photographer
Musuk Nolte (Peru), Photographer, part of the Academic Board specializing in Documentary Photography at the Centro de la imagen in Lima
Russ O’Connell (United Kingdom), Picture Editor The Sunday Times Magazine
Naoko Ohta (Japan), Founder of the Tokyo Curiosity
Silvia Omedes (Spain), Curator, Photo Editor
Søren Pagter (Denmark), Educational Coordinator at the Photography department of the Danish School of Media and Photojournalism
Max Pinckers (Belgium), Photographer and LOBA Newcomer winner 2018
Rui Prata (Portugal), Director of the Imago Festival, Lisbon
Isidro Ramírez (Singapore), Photographer, Lecturer with the LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore
Arianna Rinaldo (Italy), Curator PhEST (Festival internazionale di fotografia e arte Monopoli, Italy)
Enkhbat Roozon (Mongolia), Publisher, Founder of the Printing Company
Malin Schulz (Germany), Art Director and member of the Editorial Board of Die Zeit
Laura Serani (France), Curator, Author
Shi Hantao (China), Curator, Publisher
Horst Stasny (Austria), Photographer
Enrico Stefanelli (Italy), Artistic Director Photolux Festival
Gilles Steinmann (Switzerland), Director of Photography, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Olga Sviblova (Russia), Director of the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow
Gaia Tripoli (Italy), Photo Editor, The New York Times
Munkhdelger Tuvshin (Mongolia), Photographer
Shun Uchibayashi (Japan), Historian of Photography, Critic
István Virágvölgyi (Hungary), Curator at the Robert Capa Center
Vineet Vohra (India), Photographer
James Wellford (USA), Senior Photo Editor for global issues at National Geographic
Daniella Zalcman (USA), Documentary Photographer and Founder of Women Photograph
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
France: École nationale supérieure de la photographie (ENSP) Arles
Germany: Hochschule Hanover, University of Applied Sciences and Art, Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Mexico: Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
Puerto Rico: University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
Russia: Rodchenko Art School, Moscow
Singapore: Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
South Korea: Chung-Ang University, Seoul
Spain: Centro Internacional de Fotografía y Cine (EFTI), Madrid
Switzerland: F+F School for Art and Design, Zurich
United Kindom: London College of Communication
USA: Tufts University, Boston
USA: University of California, Berkeley
Vietnam: University of Theater and Performing Arts of Hanoi