An international jury awards the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2014 to professional photographers whose unerring powers of observation capture and express the relationship between man and the environment in the most graphic form in a sequence of a minimum of 10 up to a maximum of 12 images. Entry submissions must be a self-contained series of images in which the photographer perceives and documents the interaction between man and the environment with acute vision and contemporary visual style – creative, groundbreaking and unintrusive. Only one entry per photographer is accepted.

The renowned photographic competition, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award has been announced annually since the year 1979. Entries (professional photographers only) for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2014 are accepted as online submissions between 15 December and 31 January 2014. Entries for the Leica Oskar Barnack NEWCOMER Award are addressed to all (prospective) photographers aged 25 years and under.

For the first time, there will be a prize presented in a third category – the Leica Oskar Barnack Public Award. The winner of this category will be determined from a shortlist of candidates selected by the jury in an online vote organized in collaboration with i-shot-it.com, a platform for photographic competitions and will receive a cash prize of 2,500 Euros.