Ismail Ferdous wins the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2023 (Meero)

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•  Events: Ismail Ferdous Wins the Leica 

Oskar Barnack Award 2023

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Exhibition:  Raymond Depardon and David Burnett

•  Discovery: In Vienna, the Renter's Utopia

•  Tribute: Images by Design: Julius Shulman's Genius

•  Exhibition: Past and Present Traces

•  Book:  Edge of Texas

The winners of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2023 have been announced. Bangladeshi photographer Ismail Ferdous won in the main category, while the Newcomer prize went to Chinese photographer Ziyi Le.By Iris Mandret

In Vienna, the Renter's Utopia

Soaring real estate markets have created a worldwide housing crisis. What can we learn from a city that has largely avoided it? Photographer Luca Locatelli and journalist Francesca Mari took a closer look at the special case of Vienna, Austria.

By Luca Locatelli & Francesca Mari

Just 50 years ago, Chile was shaken by a coup d’état that ousted Allende’s People’s Union government and propelled General Pinochet to power. To mark this anniversary, the Château d’Eau Gallery in Toulouse is exhibiting two photo reportages: Raymond Depardon’s 1971 series and 1973 by David Burnett’s 1973 collection.

By Michaël Naulin

Julius Shulman’s photographs of mid century modern architecture, particularly those that came to be known as Desert Modernism in Palm Springs, were in part responsible for the style’s explosive influence during the 1960s, an influence so strong it continues today.By Elyssa Goodman

Large Glass gallery in London presents the exhibition Stepping Stones, connecting the photographic journeys of photographers Gerry Johansson, Guido Guidi and Mark Ruwedel.Cover photo by Guido Guidi

The Edge of the state of Texas is mighty big: 4137 miles of boundary big. In the spring of 2019, John Dyer, a San Antonio photographer with several books and numerous magazine covers to his credit, set out to see what it looked like.By Joe Nick Patoski & John Dyer

Galerie Leica Paris presents 3 different works that reveal Claude Iverné’s free spirit. It’s a difficult choice, given his personality and sensibility, which explore so many different avenues. Color or black & white, he excels in all fields of photography. Winner of the Henri Cartier-Bresson prize in 2015, Claude Iverné is a discreet photographer, guided by his intuition and a keen sense of poetic construction.Until October 28, 2023

A History of Portrait Photography, Part II

Depardon as a Landscape PhotographerDevoted almost exclusively to one of Raymond Depardon’s latest series, the exhibition “Communes” at the Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier invites us to take a closer look at his work on France. It unfolds as a guided tour from the 1980s through the present.

By Sophie Bernard

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