Photographer Seong Nam-hoon Selected as Finalist for Leica Oskar Barnack Award
The First Korean Winner... Final Recipient to Be Announced in October
[Asia Economy Reporter Byunghee Park] Photographer Seong Nam-hoon has become the first Korean to be shortlisted as a finalist for the 'Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA)'.
Leica Camera announced on the 29th of last month (local time) the 12 finalists for the '40th Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2020', including photographer Seong Nam-hoon.
The Leica Oskar Barnack Award is an international photography competition hosted by Leica Camera, established to honor mechanical-optical engineer Oskar Barnack, who invented Leica's 35mm compact camera and had a profound impact on visual culture history.
Seong Nam-hoon's work, "Red Island," is a photograph that uniquely captures the painful past of Jeju Island using large-format Polaroid film. Seong Nam-hoon has worked as a photographer for the French photo agency Rapho and is one of Korea's leading documentary photographers, having won the World Press Photo award twice.
Leica Camera announced that the international photography award 'Leica Oskar Barnack Award,' celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, has changed from an open competition to a nomination-based format. The nominators consist of 70 world-renowned photography experts from over 30 countries worldwide, and in Korea, Soong Soo-jung, a curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, was nominated. The jury included five members, among them photography master Joel Meyerowitz, known as a pioneer of color photography.
The final winner will be announced in October, and the award ceremony will be held in Wetzlar, Leica's hometown, instead of the usual Berlin area in Germany. For the first time in its 40-year history, the grand prize winner will receive a cash prize of 40,000 euros and a Leica camera worth 10,000 euros.
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Leica Camera plans to hold exhibitions of the winner's work and the LOBA 40th anniversary exhibition simultaneously at the Leica Camera headquarters gallery and the Ernst Leitz Museum upon the announcement of the final winner.
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