To celebrate forty years since its creation, the Oskar Barnack Award initiated by Leica in 1979 to honour the memory of Oskar Barnack - inventor of the Ur-Leica - presents the eight finalists of the 2020 edition and a selection of works that have made history along with the prize, from the 1980s to today. During the four decades of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA), the winning works cast light on society and the vast array of problems that have accompanied its evolution - climate, industrialisation, scientific progress, the social economy and even leisure have been among the themes taken on by the talents who received the award. Among these, world-famous photographers such as Sebastião Salgado, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Wendy Watriss, Jane Evelyn Atwood and David Turnley and many others whose careers were given a boost, thanks to the LOBA. An Italian is the winner of this edition - Luca Locatelli - while Portugal’s Gonçalo Fonseca was named the winner among emerging talent (2020 Newcomer Winner).
