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Alex Majoli, Italian, born in 1971, graduated from art school in 1991. After becoming a full member of Magnum Photos in 2001, Majoli covered the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and two years later the invasion of Iraq. He continues to document various conflicts worldwide for Newsweek, the New York Times Magazine, Granta and National Geographic.





Within the context of a cooperation agreed between Magnum Photos Inc and Leica Camera, both parties now work together on a number of projects intended to write further chapters in the story of their many years of engagement in the field of documentary photography.

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Jing Huang, born in Guangzhou and now a resident of Shenzhen, China, was just named as the recipient this year’s Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award.





His self-selected portfolio of 12 black-and-white fine art images shot with his beloved Leica M4-P were chosen from over 2,000 entries.

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Jan Grarup (Danish, b.1968) has over the course of his eighteen-year career photographed many of recent history’s defining human rights and conflict issues. Grarup’s work reflects his belief in photojournalism’s role as an instrument of witness and memory to incite change, and the necessity of telling the stories of people who are rendered powerless to tell their own.





Jan received the first prize in the highly prestigious photographic competition, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2011, for this project: "Haïti Aftermath".

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