Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2007 : The 26-year-old Brazilian photographer Julio Bittencourt has won the 2007 Leica Oskar Barnack Award for a series of portraits of inhabitants of a house occupied by homeless people in downtown São Paulo. Honourable mentions went to the Spanish photographer José Cendon for a reportage project in psychiatric hospitals in East Africa and the Norwegian Margaret M. de Lange, who captured the childhood and youth of her two daughters in a long-term photographic project. Held since 1979 in memory of the inventor of the first 35mm camera, Oskar Barnack (1879 - 1936), the competitions each year centres on the relationship between man and his environment.
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