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86 | Leica M10-P Extremely quiet and the embodiment of elegance in both form and function: the new Leica M10-P
Over 23 000 photographers present more than 300 000 pictures in the LFI Gallery. In this issue: circus children, a heron, and trampoline jumpers
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Leica, Panasonic and Sigma have joined forces to stir up a fresh breeze in the photo market: introducing the L-Mount Alliance 9 6 | L e i c a C L S I Lv E R A new addition to the CL family: the silver-finish version of the Leica CL offers all the advantages of compact APS-C photography in an elegant new design
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Ruben Tomas: from the Mosh series
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Adrian Crispin 6 | N e x t S t o p H o lly w o o d
9 8 | L e i c a App At last – one app to rule them all. The Leica Fotos app streamlines your experience of connecting cameras and smartphones
“One click and he was wet”. The reportage and fashion photographer speaks about pools and celebrities
Roman Bezjak 2 8 | P y o n g ya n g
102 | Leica store Production, culture and a touch of local flair: many core elements of the successful Leica Store Frankfurt will now also be applied in Wetzlar
Order and discipline: the stories that architecture can tell – journey through an open-air museum of sorts
César Rodríguez 4 4 | I f H e ll E x i s t e d
Caught in a vicious circle: farmers in the Mexican state of Guerrero make a living growing opium poppies
Bogdan Dziworski 5 8 | L e i c a Cl a ss i c The Leica M10-P is the ultimate expression of everything M photography represents
New publications by Alex Prager, Matthieu Gafsou, Patrick Galbats and Joachim Hildebrand
“If you are patient, the dance with reality begins” – homage to the exceptional Polish photographer
Dorothea Lange in Paris; Eugene Richards in New York; Liza Ambrossio in Madrid; Masahisa Fukase in Amsterdam; Sarah Moon in Milan 1 1 6 | L e i c a G a ll e r i e s The NRW Leica Gallery presents Maasai Land by Lars Beusker; and, Leica Galleries worldwide, with Alex Webb, Melanie Pullen, and Julio Bittencourt 1 1 8 | I n t e rv i e w The European Month of Photography is being held in Berlin for the eighth time. A talk with project leader Oliver Bätz 122 | My Picture More than luck: his dependable equipment ensured that Beat Presser was able to capture this image of a Buddhist monk 1 2 2 | i mpr i n t
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Glistening lights, flowers in her hair – a journey exploring both California and the fifties
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The S Magazine is celebrating 10 years of the S System with work by the photographer Tom Munro
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The socialist architecture of post-war modernism is a leitmotif threading its way through the life of photography professor Roman Bezjak. He found it again in the urban landscape of the North Korean capital – a place that seems lost in time.
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César Rodríguez If Hell Existed
Out into nature far away from civilisation, to till the earth and look after one’s own needs. It may seem like paradise to big city-dwelling romantics, but it is a bitter reality for farmers in the remote areas of the South Mexican state of Guerrero.
For many families, the opium harvest is the only livelihood they have. The drug cartels are among the villagers’ main clients
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Bogdan Dziworski PI C TURE STORIES
Direct, poetic and full of empathy: the photographic oeuvre of film-maker Dziworski is still a discovery – even though it ranks among the most idiosyncratic examples of Polish post-war photography.
Self portrait with Leica and muse (top); street scene of a rainy square in Łódź (opposite page), both taken in 1961
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Burlesque artist and alternative model Mosh strikes some poses in the sunshine, beside a flowery Mulholland Drive swimming pool, as part of Ruben Tomas’s ongoing exploration of California dreaming.
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no . 1 O Tom Munro has been working with the S system since its release ten years ago. The S Magazine celebrates this successful relationship with its tenth issue.
Tom Munro photographed the who’s who of the most famous, gorgeous and influential people today. Angelina Jolie and Madonna also trusted his skills
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Being Joel M ey e row i tz “At the end of October I visited the small town of Chatham on Cape Cod. The place was already familiar to me because of Joel Meyerowitz’s pictures, and it felt like I was treading in his footsteps. As I photographed this deserted but beautiful place, I was overcome by feelings of nostalgia.” Caroline Gasch Leica Q, Summilux 28mm f/1.7 Asph
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“ B e r l i n – f u l ly f o c u s e d o n p h o to g ra p h y. “ i n t e rv i e w
Berlin has been the location for the European Month of Photography (EMOP) since 2004. This year brings us the eighth edition. Project leader Oliver Bätz speaks about the event’s highlights and history.
LFI: Mr. Bätz, what are the highlights of this year’s European Month of Photography? Oliver Bätz: With 120 exhibitions, it would be unfair to mention just a few here. The appeal of the EMOP Berlin has always been in the diversity of its projects: there really is something for everyone. For fans of black and white photography, much of it taken in Berlin, we have quite a lot on display this year. Also historical images, political and artistic photography, country-specific themes, and analogue photography.
The individual events are being held all over the city in more than 100 venues. What else is particularly worth mentioning? Bätz: Yes, the EMOP Berlin is truly the largest photography festival in Germany. This is due, first of all, to the large number of institutions in Berlin that deal professionally LFI:
with photography, which is also one of our selection criteria. The exciting thing is that the small project space stands next to the big museum, the Embassy next to the established gallery, the cultural institution next to the photography school. EMOP Berlin’s unique feature is that our festival brings together public, publicly-sponsored and private institutions in one big photo extravaganza. How was it possible to get such diversity to collaborate? Bätz: A collaboration involving more than 100 institutions is always a challenge – even if it’s something ones does quite frequently. There are three main factors that are always problematic: the summer vacation, when Berlin suddenly empties out at the beginning of the holidays and everyone you need to connect with seems unreachable for weeks; the fact that, even though we’ve been organising EMOP Berlin for many years now, there are always institutions that ask to become a part of it just a few LFI:
weeks before the opening – after the jury has sat together and after the festival catalogue has already been designed; and finally, the individual wishes that we can’t always meet. There is also going to be a collaboration with the Leica Oscar Barnack Award (LOBA). The LOBA 2018 finalists will be exhibited at the Neuen Schule für Fotografie, and the German Leica photographer Anatol Kotte will host a series of talks at his Capitis venue titled On the Red Sofa. Bätz: Following 2016, this is the second time that all the LOBA winners and finalists of one year are being presented at EMOP Berlin. It’s obvious that the jury Leica assembled has, once again, made an outstanding selection and we will be seeing some exceptional pictures in the exhibition. The collaboration is of benefit for both parties: Leica has given EMOP Berlin two cameras and the excep- → LFI:
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