Jens Olof Lasthein is the winner of the Oskar Barnack Award 2010 for his portfolio ‘Waiting for the future – pictures from Abkhazia’.
The first prize in this year’s highly prestigious photographic competition, the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2010’, goes to the Swedish photographer Jens Olof Lasthein. His award-winning portfolio entitled ‘Waiting for the future – pictures from Abkhazia’ tells the story of the people of the Republic of Abkhazia in the Southern Caucasus.
The international jury sought to find a series of photographs in which a photographer perceives and documents the interaction between man and the environment with acute vision and contemporary style – creative, groundbreaking and unintrusive. This award carries on the tradition of Oskar Barnack, inventor of the Leica, whose photography of the floods in Wetzlar in 1920 is now considered the first reportage series shot with a 35 mm still frame camera.
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