The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2012 recorded over 2,800 entries from professional photographers in 101 countries this year. This video shows the portfolios of the award winners and finalists. United States photographer Frank Hallam Day won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his portfolio, “Alumascapes,” and Polish photographer Piotr Zbierski won the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award for his portfolio, “Pass by Me.”
Here are the finalists for this year:
Tamas Dezso
Jason Andrew
Arnhel de Serra
Stefan Bladh
Fausto Podavini
Michael Goldberg
Michael Frank
Michael Christopher Brown
Konstantin Salomatin
-Leica Internet Team
For a more in-depth look at the winners and their photographs, read our blog post here.
Robert Stevens
I am a professor of photo history at The School of Visual Arts in NYC, who were the winners of the NEWCOMER AWARD??? I don’t see it posted here???
Leica Internet Team
Hi Robert! Here’s the link to the blog post with the winners: http://leica-camera.blog/leica-news/announcing-the-leica-oskar-barnack-award-winners-of-2012/. The Newcomer Award went to Piotr Zbierski.
Here’s more blog posts about the award too: http://leica-camera.blog/topics/leica-oskar-barnack-award/