LEICA WOMEN FOTO PROJECT WINNERS: 2021

"Finding Freedom in the Water” By Anna Boyiazis

Kijini Primary School students learn to float, swim, and perform rescues on Oct. 25, 2016 in the Indian Ocean off of Muyuni, Zanzibar © Anna Boyiazis

 “Project 562:Pandemic Portraits and Stories from Native Youth” By Matika Wilbur

Virginia Christman is a Kumeyaay grandma, mother of Takko Christman, who is a leader of the prominent Bird Dancing family © Matika Wilbur

“The Super Power of Me” By Karen Zusman

Kris, lives in Sheepshead Bay © Karen Zusman

Leica Women Foto Project Award Winners

 

The Leica Women Foto Project is pleased to announce the recipients of the second annual Leica Women Foto Project Award. This prestigious award is a part of the Leica Women Foto Project, an ongoing commitment to diversity in visual storytelling to help empower the female point of view through photography.

The mission of the Leica Women Foto Project is to encourage and empower photographers to demonstrate the importance and impact of a female's point of view. The award serves as a catalyst to re-frame how we see, how we think, and how we express our visual narrative.

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Finding Freedom in the Water By Anna Boyiazis bears witness to women and girls in Zanzibar learning to swim, an act of emancipation. This proposal focuses on an in-depth, visual narrative of these women and girls, revealing the broader and the more intimate context of their daily lives.

Instagram: @AnnaBoyiazis
Facebook: Anna Boyiazis
Website: www.annaboyiazis.com 

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Project 562 By Matika Wilbur is a visual narrative of Tribal sovereignties in the US, covering over 400 Tribal Nations in all 50 states to “change the way we see Native America”. Matika’s extraordinary creative initiative and singular body of work began after a dream with her grandmother, who asked her to photograph their own peoples. Matika honors her ancestor by portraying the richness and diversity of lived experiences of Indian Country with bold and inspired creativity.

Instagram: @Project562
Facebook: @Project562
Website: matikawilbur.com

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The Super Power of Me By Karen Zusman project celebrates young lives of color and immigrants with a portrait series that shows who they are before the world tells them otherwise. It consists of an outdoor exhibit and creativity workshops that help express, protect and share with the world their vision of who they are.

Instagram: @kzusman
Facebook: @Karen.Zusman
Website: www.kz-photo.com

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The projects submitted by Matika Wilbur, Karen Zusman and Anna Boyiazis were carefully selected by nine influential women in photography, art and journalism, which include:

 

+ Karin Rehn-Kaufmann, Art Director & Chief Representative, Leica Galleries International

+ Amanda de Cadenet, Entrepreneur, journalist, author, photographer, activist and found of   Girlgaze & The Conversation

+ Laura Roumanos, Executive producer and co-founder, United Photo Industries and Photoville

+ Sheila Pree Bright, Fine-art photographer and visual cultural producer

+ Elizabeth Avedon, Independent curator, photo consultant, designer and writer

+ Elizabeth Krist, National Geographic photo editor and founding member of the Visual Thinking Collective

+ Lynn Johnson, Photographer and National Geographic contributor

+ Maggie Steber, VII Agency photographer and Guggenheim Grant Fellow

+ Sandra Stevenson, Assistant Editor in the photography department at The New York Times

 

In addition to the $10,000 award, recipients will each receive a Leica Q2, a fixed-lens compact camera with a rangefinder-style electronic viewfinder that produces unparalleled high-quality images. 

 

Designed with a weather-sealed body and crafted to last a lifetime, the Leica Q2 cameras will be gifted to this year's award recipients: Matika Wilbur, Karen Zusman and Anna Boyiazis so they can continue their groundbreaking work for years to come. 

 

To further elevate the voices of these female award recipients and their diverse photographic subjects, the new awardees will also be offered opportunities to participate in Leica Gallery exhibitions and Leica Akademie workshops as well as receive mentorship from notable photographers in the industry.

VIEW THE LEICA WOMEN FOTO PROJECT AWARDS HERE

LEICA GALLERY, LOS ANGELES: Exhibition Mary Ellen Mark, SEAL, Yariv Milchan

  Amanda and her Cousin Amy, Valdese, N.Carolina, 1990
Mary Ellen Mark - Leica, My First Camera

 Me
SEAL - Stopping Time

Emotions in Motion
Yariv Milchan - Leica. An Affair

MARY ELLEN MARK - Leica, My First Camera

SEAL - Stopping Time
YARIV MILCHAN - Leica. An Affair

Leica Gallery, L.A. is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition of three photographers: award winning international photojournalist MARY ELLEN MARK, Leica photographer and Grammy award winning singer/songwriter SEAL and Los Angeles fashion and celebrity photographer YARIV MILCHAN. Through August 31, 2013

MARY ELLEN MARK

 
The exhibition includes 50 iconic gelatin silver prints spanning both Mark's work in cinema as well her profoundly affecting social documentary portraits. Included are several of Mark's iconic Indian Circus images as well as significant environmental portraits from the South, Seattle, as well as New York Street photographs.

In addition to her deep affection for photographing people on the margins of society, Mark has long sustained her career by bringing her talents to Hollywood and European film sets. On display at Leica Gallery are several of her powerful set and backstage portraits capturing intimate moments of movie stars such as Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper and Johnny Depp. Mark's photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums from New York to China, with work in the local permanent collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, California Museum of Photography (Riverside), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Mark has 18 published books to her credit, including Indian Circus, Falkland Road, and Streetwise.

SEAL 

SEAL grew up in England and quickly established himself as a great singer of soul music. Over the span of his illustrious singing and songwriting career SEAL has won 4 Grammy awards, an MTV Video Music award and sold over 20 million albums worldwide. Seal is presently a Coach for The Voice Australia.

A self proclaimed "photography geek" and ambassador for Leica, Seal views his photographic practice as a means of connecting to people and "stopping time." SEAL has been a loyal Leica Camera collector for 25 years. He started shooting 35mm on the original M3 and more recently with the digital Leica Monochrome. His work on display at Leica Gallery includes environmental portraits from the streets of Varanasi, India as well as self-portraits.

YARIV MILCHAN

 
Photographer and film producer Yariv Milchan is Israeli born, educated in France and attended college in Los Angeles. Milchan describes himself as a "self taught photographer" beginning with early internships with world famous fashion photographers that eventually led to jobs with Vanity Fair magazine. Yariv's photographs share a depth and beauty whether he focuses his lens on the stunning California landscape or the sinuous curvature of a woman's back. The common thread always sewing his body of work together is his love of capturing great light, nature and beauty. His exhibition presents a selection of both his landscapes and portraits. (Text courtesy of the Leica Gallery, L.A.)

Through August 31

Leica Gallery, Los Angeles

GALLERY STOPS: New York and Atlanta

Schoolchildren
Amy Stein and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar | Tall Poppy Syndrome

"In 2010, American photographers Amy Stein and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar embarked on a month-long road trip throughout New South Wales—Australia’s most populous state. They were interested in investigating “Tall Poppy Syndrome.” Is the syndrome even real? Can it be documented or observed? Stein and Mehrfar set out to explore quintessential Australian life and find what evidence they could of the existence of this phenomenon."– From the photo editors at Time Magazine

January 10 – February 16  

CLAMPART 

 Untitled (Boy with Ball)
Evžen Sobek | Life in Blue

Czech photographer Evžen Sobek has been documenting life on the banks of the Nové Mlýny reservoirs in the southern region of the Czech Republic since 2007.

January 10 – February 16  

CLAMPART

 Magdalena Sole | Mississippi Delta

"Award winning photographer Magdalena Sole spent a year interviewing and photographing hundreds of residents in the Mississippi Delta, called "the most southern place on earth."

January 11 - February 23

LEICA Gallery, NY

 

 Starlings (2009) by Randi Lynn Beach
SOAR: Group Exhibition

SOAR featuring the photographs of Randi Lynn Beach, Tom Chambers, Jason Houston, Kat Kiernan, Clay Lipsky, Kerry Mansfield, Michael J. Marshall, Dorothy O’Connor, Emma Powell, Kathleen Robbins, Heather Evans Smith, Gordon Stettinius, Marisol Villanueva and Rebecca Norris Webb

February 2, 2013
Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta

 John Schabel | Passengers

Twin Palms Publishers, 2013

"John Schabel's series of photographs depicting anonymous airline passengers effectively captures the curious blend of impersonal efficiency and poignant humanity that pervades the experience of contemporary commercial air travel."

 

International Center of Photography

Book Signing: John Schabel's Passengers
Friday, February 8, 6:00pm–7:30pm

 Brown River, 2011. Paper Collage
Casey Ruble Disarmed

"These intimate collages of interior and exterior worlds introduce to us a scene where the description of the main event is absent, but filled in by the supporting details or evidence, suggesting a deeper, often unsettling narrative."

January 16 - February 24

 FOLEY Gallery, NY