Archive for the ‘Special Series’ Category

Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol: Episode 6 – The Final Episode

© Jacob Aue Sobol

This is the sixth and final episode of our “Arrivals and Departures” series with Magnum Photographer Jacob Aue Sobol after his journey photographing what he saw with his Leica M Monochrom through Moscow, Ulaanbaatar and Beijing. -Leica Internet Team To learn more about Jacob Aue Sobol and view his work, visit his website at www.auesobol.dk. To follow the [...]

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Leica. My Life – Alexander George

Alexander George

The latest video in the “Leica. My Life” series features Alexander George, a customer service representative at Leica Camera AG. Alexander repairs cameras and replaces parts for customers – a very precise job. When he’s off the clock, Alexander is often found Thai boxing.  He has figured out a way to combine his love for Thai boxing and [...]

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Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol: Episode 5 – Beijing

© Jacob Aue Sobol

“I can’t live without you.” The train takes me through the Gobi-desert, Inner Mongolia and the mountains before reaching Beijing. The landscape changes and so does the weather. From Winter to Spring. From -20 in Siberia to +20 in Beijing. I’ve heard they are difficult to get close to – the Chinese. I find it [...]

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Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol: Episode 4 – The Mongolians

© Jacob Aue Sobol

The Mongolians I arrive in Ulaanbaatar after four days on the train. It’s a relief to get off and be amongst people again. The Mongolians. I feel it right away. These people are proud and strong, but they’re also caught in a strange connection between the present and the past. During my six-day stay in [...]

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Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol: Episode 3 – The Train

© Jacob Aue Sobol

The Train The first shock comes as I enter the train. It’s completely empty. The whole idea of the project is to meet people on the train and make intimate stories from their  compartments. But riding this ghost-train, I have to change the concept: The intimate work has to come from my encounters with people [...]

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Leica. My Life – Iskander Abdulkarim

Iskander Abdulkarim

      In the latest “Leica. My Life” series, meet Iskandar Abdulkarim. By day a development engineer at Leica Camera AG, Iskander enjoys driving his Audi TTS Coupé by the countryside on the German autobahns in his free time. In the video, Iskander explains why perfectionism is so important, not only to him and the [...]

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Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol: Episode 2 – Moscow

Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol: Episode 2 - Moscow

Moscow, the first city In part two of our “Arrivals and Departures” series with Magnum Photographer Jacob Aue Sobol, the Trans Siberian Railway has stopped in Moscow. Jacob brings us along his journey as he shoots the streets of Russia’s capital not sure of what will happen but equipped with a Leica M Monochrom. -Leica Internet Team [...]

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Arrivals and Departures: An Introduction

Jacob Aue Sobol

Huge distances in a slow pace On this journey I will visit three cities, where I have never been before:  Moscow, Ulan Batar, and Beijing. The train will bring me from the Russian forests to the Mongolian desert and finally through the mountains to Beijing. The train will be the red thread connecting these capitals. [...]

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Casablanca: Marco Barbon’s Images of Silence

Casablanca. Le Habbous. 2010

Looking at the body of work that photographer Marco Barbon is compiling with the intricacy of an expert craftsman, we can distinguish several defining characteristics that the artist repeatedly questions. Those characteristics, in return, structure his work and create connections between the different series that comprise it. Amongst these are the question of the “ambiguous” [...]

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Abdoulaye Barry: “Through photography, I Want to Take On My Share of Responsibility”

© Abdoulaye Barry

Abdoulaye Barry is a Chadian photographer, who was born in N’Djamena in 1980. Following the presentation of a monographic exhibition of his work at the recent Rencontres de Bamako photo festival, we spoke with him about his Pêcheurs de nuit (Night Fishermen) series taken on Lake Chad in 2010, about his professional path and about [...]

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Announcing the Leica User Forum Book 2012: Raising Funds for Cancer Research

Leica User Forum Book 2012

Toggle to full screen mode to have a better viewing experience and in case your browser cannot display the book viewer properly, click here. Andy Barton oversaw the creation of the Leica User Forum’s Charity Book 2012. Here he shares the process of putting together the book and what it means for him personally. I am [...]

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Michael Tsegaye, Future Memories, Part Two

Working Girls

As an art school student studying painting, Michael Tsegaye thought “photography was too easy and a bit boring compared to painting — all you had to do with it was click on a button!” It wasn’t until a few years later when he became allergic to the oil paints that he began to explore photography [...]

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Michael Tsegaye: Future Memories, Part One

© Michael Tsegaye

Michael Tsegaye is an Ethiopian photographer, born in 1975. His work has been exhibited in Africa (Bamako, Addis-Abeba), Europe (Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Amsterdam) and the Americas (New York, Miami, Memphis, Mexico City). Michael Tsegaye lives and works in Addis-Abeba, the capital city of Ethiopia. This is how Michael explains what he chooses to portray, “As [...]

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Leica. My Life – Ben Bernschneider

Ben Bernschneider

Our fourth video in the “Leica. My Life” series features Hamburg-based Ben Bernschneider, a passionate director, photographer, author and pretty bad musician. No matter what he’s working on, Ben’s mission is to preserve human beauty. Ben can stage his image with a studio, a model and lighting, but what’s captured when the shutter clicks on [...]

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Marc Shoul: Looking for Complex Images That Transport

Enzo; Brakpan 2011 © Marc Shoul

Marc Shoul is a South African photographer, born in 1975 in Port Elizabeth. Interested in exploring social issues, four years ago he began photographing the city of Brakpan, which is a 45-minute drive from Johannesburg. Street scenes and more intimate portraits compose a personal portrayal of a place that is “anchored in time, the same, [...]

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