2025

Alone Together

Now that people have access to the whole world, they can easily lose sight of what is right in front of them. Digital spaces divert attention and separate people who are in the same room. However, Alone Together shows that this is not a problem of technology, but of perception: what we no longer look at disappears. The role of photography therefore remains as important as ever: to capture the real world and everything it contains.

Black-and-white image: Several people stand next to each other wearing VR glasses and holding them close to their faces, unaware of their surroundings.

Paris, France 2025, Stephen Song

Black-and-white image: A large group of nuns sit tightly packed on an outdoor staircase, filling the frame, most of them busy with their smartphones.

On the Steps, Vatican City 2025, Michael Erimo

Several people stand or walk in front of a large fire on a street, wearing masks and looking at their smartphones.

Demonstration against police violence 2023, William Keo

Black-and-white image: Two people sit next to each other with their backs to the camera, each looking at a smartphone on which the face of each person appears mirrored.

Lampedusa, Italy. Somalian migrants gathering in front of the electric plugs. 2025, Alex Majoli

Black-and-white image: A group of young people stand in front of a colourfully spray-painted wall, all looking at their smartphones.

iPhone reunion 2022, Alberto Ottomaniello

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Leica M EV1

Staying True to Authenticity

Leica starts a new chapter with the M EV1: for the first time, an electronic viewfinder (EVF) replaces the classic rangefinder in an M-Camera. While manual focusing remains, the EVF supports precise focusing with focus peaking and magnification for extremely fast and telephoto lenses as well as wide-angle lenses. This is an evolution that dares to try something new, yet remains true to authenticity.

LOBA 2021–25

A World Under Pressure

The most recent years of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award reflect a world in a state of emergency, with pandemics, climate crises, migration and social tensions characterising images. The award-winning series tells of closeness at a distance, identity and resilience – photography becomes a language of compassion while remaining a precise observation of a changing humanity.

Shot from above: A woman wearing a red top lies on a bed surrounded by other people. She looks longingly out of a latticed window at the light shining in from outside.

Días Eternos (Eternal Days) 2021, Ana María Arévalo Gosen

2021

Ana María Arevalo Gosen

In Dias Eternos, Ana María Arevalo Gosen documents life in Venezuelan women’s prisons. Her haunting images reveal the themes of confinement, dignity and the capacity to endure in the face of adversity.

A group of women are photographed through a mirror in a wall and door, sitting close together in a small room with ornate bunk beds. One woman is drinking tea on the floor.

Promises Written on the Ice, Left in the Sun 2022, Kiana Hayeri

2022

Kiana Hayeri

In Promises Written on the Ice, Left in the Sun, Kiana Hayeri portrays the lives of young women in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of Western troops. Between hope and loss, she captures fragile moments of self-determination – tender, courageous and harrowing all at once.

Four fishermen stand on the edge of a fishing boat by the sea, pulling a large white fishing net edged with orange floats from the beach into the small rowing boat together.

Sea Beach 2023, Ismail Ferdous

2023

Ismail Ferdous

In Sea Beach, Ismail Ferdous observes visitors to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, one of the longest natural sandy beaches in the world. Here, they escape their everyday lives – strolling, watching, playing, relaxing and encountering one another. The beach brings together people from a wide range of backgrounds and thus becomes a social stage on which one can present oneself while at the same time retreating.

A bird’s-eye view of a rectangular industrial site with large yellow basins, light-coloured sedimentation areas, pipelines and concrete paths in the lower area.

Critical Minerals – Geography of Energy 2024, Davide Monteleone

2024

Davide Monteleone

Critical Minerals – The Geography of Energy tracks the geopolitical hotspots of the energy transition: lithium mines, cobalt mining and rare earths. Davide Monteleone reveals the hidden cost of ‘green’ technologies, showcasing landscapes and communities that pay the price for global progress. Beauty and burden lie close together here.

Black-and-white image: A young couple look into each other’s eyes, smiling and in love. A desert landscape stretches out behind them, her hair and his scarf blowing strongly in the wind.

The Two Walls 2025, Alejandro Cegarra

2025

Alejandro Cegarra

In The Two Walls, Alejandro Cegarra documents the experiences of Venezuelan migrants on their dangerous journey to the USA via Mexico. His photographs describe the determination, loss, hope and love, which brings light to every place, as well as life between two walls: the one left behind and the one standing before you.

100 Years of Leica Photography

Witness to A Century

Dubai

January 2025

Milan

April 2025

New York

May 2025

Wetzlar

June 2025

Shanghai

July 2025

Tokyo

October 2025

In2025,acenturyafterthelaunchoftheLeicaI,whichmadeitpossibletocaptureauthenticmomentsfortheveryfirsttime,Leicainvitesyoutocommemoratephotographytogether.ThecelebrationsinWetzlarandacrosstheglobe–andevennow,asyoureadthis–centreononething:theeyesbehindthetechnology.Thecountlessindividualswhotodaysharethesameperspectiveacrossgenerations–curious,respectful,humaneandclosetothesubject.Thankstothem,ajourneythroughtimewithLeicaleadsnotonlythroughcurrentevents,photographyandcompanyhistory,butalsotakesyouthrougheveryaspectofreallife–unfiltered,discreetandyetneverdistant.Thisway,viewersthemselvesbecomewitnesses,feelingandrecognisingthat,howeverincomprehensiblybeautifulorunbearablycruelrealitymaybe,itis–andwillalwaysbe–worthwhiletotakeacloserlook.Theremarkablecommunitythatarisesfromthisreflectionalsoinspiresustofacethefuturewithcourage.Withtheirpowersofobservation,tenacity,clarityand,aboveall,theirhumanity,theywillhelpmanymoregenerationsdiscoverthetruepurposeofphotography: tostayintouchwiththeworld.

We must learn to see again if we want to apprehend the totality of the world.
– László Moholy-Nagy, 1925

Black-and-white portrait of László Moholy-Nagy