Photocompete

• Copyright: You grant Leica Camera AG the right to publish your series of pictures entered into this competition online in the online gallery on the homepage of Leica Camera AG and use for promotion purposes if selected.
• Entry fee: Free
• Entry deadline: 1st March 2012
• Who can enter: Open to any (prospective) professional photographer aged 25 or under

An international jury awards the Leica Oskar Barnack Award / Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award to 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.

Prize:

• The winner of the “Leica Oskar Barnack Award” receives a Leica M9-P camera and a lens worth 10.000 Euros in addition to a cash prize of 5,000 Euros.

Participants must send in a series of photographs taken in 2011 or 2012 or long-term projects containing at least one photo from 2011 or 2012. Only one entry per photographer is accepted.

Image requirements: JPG format; 72dpi in the RGB color space for viewing on the web; under 3 MB in image file size; 1200 pixels high image.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com