Leica Reveals Its Stunning Shortlist for the 2016 Oskar Barnack Award

Each year, Leica narrows down 12 photographers in its shortlist for the Oskar Barnack Awards. For the German optics enterprise's 2016 competition, over 3,200 shutterbugs based in 108 locations across the globe submitted their portfolio consisting of 12 images -- vying to snag the grand bounty for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award. The preponderance of winners hail from Europe with five French photographers and one German shooter seizing half of the slots in...