2024 徠卡奧斯卡 · 巴納克攝影獎 ( LOBA ) 已揭曉最終入圍的十二位攝影師名單。所有入圍的作品均可在 LOBA 官方網站查閱，官網將在未來數周更全面地展示入圍作品。該獎項由Leica相機公司經過遴選後授予的入圍者。大獎得主和新人獎得主將於10月10日揭盅。頒獎典禮與盛大的慶祝活動將依照傳統於德國威茲勒舉辦。
今年來自約50個國家的80位國際攝影權威為 LOBA 提名候選作品，之後經評審團共同確定徠卡奧斯卡 · 巴納克攝影獎大獎和新人獎的入圍名單。而目標30歲以下攝影師的LOBA新人獎今年亦與20個國家的重要攝影機構和大學合作，並由後者提名入圍名單。
Elmira and Elahe are sisters. Elmira is a painter and Elahe is a voice actress. Young artists often face serious financial challenges in Iran. So they decided to leave the country and now Elmira is studying in Canada while Elahe is still trying to find a way to emigrate.Women pose for a selfie, before they are getting ready to go to work. They work as vendors to sell their handmade stuff in high seasons, when many tourists visit there due to the mild weather of the island in the winter. In summer, when it is too hot and there is a lack of tourists, they go fishing and sell them to the buyers out of the Island. Female labor force participation is around 14% in Iran which is much lower than the median of the world. However, the women of the island play a majority role in the families’ economies.Hasti Rezaei is 15 years old. She was the youngest female champion of Iran and UAE in 2021-2022. Her mother is braiding her hair to get ready to go to the track.
Anush Babajanyan
《納戈爾諾-卡拉巴赫戰爭與人民的流離》(Nagorno-Karabakh War and Exodus)
Children in Mets Tagher village, Hadrut region, play and run around an airplane that belonged to a WWII Marshal from this village in Nagorno-Karabakh, on February 28, 2020.Anahit Stepanyan, 43, (center) waits to be registered at the humanitarian station and registration point in Kornidzor village, Armenia, on September 26, 2023. Anahit’s family has fled the village of Vaghuhas in Nagorno-Karabakh. Her relative Hayk Martirosyan, 37, (left) who lives in Armenia, has arrived to meet and host the family in his home in Armenia.Araksya Grigoryan, 43, (left) a single mother of seven, poses for a portrait with her children in their house in Martakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, on February 5, 2017. Araksya’s elder son, Sasun, is back home for a break from his military service. The family received the house from the Nagorno-Karabakh government after Araksya gave birth to her fifth child.
Four sisters plait each other’s hair in the town of KutA farmer walks on the cracked, dried earth beside the Diyala river. In recent years the water by his home has become stagnant, poisoned, and is no longer even able to be used for his animals.Bassam al-Sheikh, an environmental activist, stands amongs reed beds on the banks of the Tigris river in Mosul
Ksenia Ivanova
《南高加索樹影間》(Between the Trees of the South Caucasus)
Akarmara, Abkhazia – September 22, 2020: Shamil Kurt-Ogly, 16, poses for a portrait with rabbits that he raises for food near his semi-abandoned house in the former mining village of Akarmara, Abkhazia. Due to high unemployment in Abkhazia, Shamil’s mother left to work in a hotel in Russia, living there year-round. He and his brother live with their grandmother, who is also raising their little 5-year-old sister.Tbilisi, Georgia – 1 September 2022: Neighbors gathered for the funeral of one of the displaced Georgian woman from Abkhazia in the former hotel “Uzhba” in Tbilisi, Georgia. Most of the residents are resettled Georgians from Abkhazia, their children and grandchildren.Abkhazia, Sukhumi – September 27, 2023: Children during a drill competition between schools in Sukhumi (in Abkhazian – Sukhum), Abkhazia, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the victory of Abkhazia in 1993. Most Abkhaz children do not know the Abkhaz language and speak only Russian. In the Gali region, where Georgians reside, the de facto authorities of Abkhazia have introduced education in Russian language.
CARACAS, VENEZUELA – JANUARY 10, 2023: Men scavenge for food in a large waste container during a busy afternoon in Petare, a working-class neighborhood.CARACAS, VENEZUELA. SEPTEMBER 14, 2019: In a house made of plastic sheets, Grilis Febres (center), 19, holds her youngest daughter. While her mother (bottom right) and sister-in-law (left) hold their newborn children in their home in Petare. In Venezuela, contraception shortages began in 2013. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Venezuela has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the world. Every 3 minutes, there is a birth from a teenage girl.
Chile, April 2023. Albemarle Facility. Aerial view of lithium evaporation ponds.
Chilean Lithium is processed through a method that involves the use of big evaporation ponds where the extracted brine water, carried out and pumped from a series of underground wells, is collected and left to evaporate, while exposed to weather elements.
The brine, a “complex soup” with a variety of salts, is in fact concentrated in large pools for 12 to 18 months, with an addition of lime and sodium. Since these salts have different solubilities, the final element remaining after more than a year is a 6% concentrated lithium, which is then sent to the chemical plant where lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide are produced.
Albemarle is one of the two companies owning a lithium mine in the Salar de Atacama.
Located in the southern part of the Salar, it is smaller than SQM’s mine, but still a leading industry in the field.
***GENERAL CAPTION***Chile has the largest lithium reserves in the world. The country is the second global producer of this metal, essential in the upcoming energy switch for its utilization in the production of electric batteries for vehicles, smart devices, renewable power plants, and other technologies helping the world transition away from fossil fuels. According to the Chilean government’s projections, global demand for lithium will quadruple by 2030, reaching 1.8 million tonnes. The Atacama region, which is also home to vast copper mines, supplies nearly one-quarter of the globe’s lithium.
The private-owned mining companies SQM and Albemarle take the lead in the commercialization and development of the material, often at the expense of the environment and small communities.
The metal is, in fact, extracted through the evaporation of brines found beneath salt flats on South America’s Atacama Plateau, a water-intensive method that drains already scarce water resources, damages wetlands, and harms communities.
Miners pump salty lithium-containing water, called brine, into massive ponds, where it can take years for the evaporation process to separate the lithium.
The displacement of villagers, forced to leave due to lack of water resources or construction sites, has also caused the disappearance of many ancient cultures and traditions of a population used to live by following the natural cycles.Chile, April 2023. Albemarle Facility. Albemarle workers collecting samples from a lithium pond. Chilean Lithium is processed through a method that involves the use of big evaporation ponds where the extracted brine water, carried out and pumped from a series of underground wells, is collected and left to evaporate, while exposed to weather elements.
The brine, a “complex soup” with a variety of salts, is in fact concentrated in large pools for 12 to 18 months, with an addition of lime and sodium. Since these salts have different solubilities, the final element remaining after more than a year is a 6% concentrated lithium, which is then sent to the chemical plant where lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide are produced.
Albemarle is one of the two companies owning a lithium mine in the Salar de Atacama.
Located in the southern part of the Salar, it is smaller than SQM’s mine, but still a leading industry in the field.
***GENERAL CAPTION***Chile has the largest lithium reserves in the world. The country is the second global producer of this metal, essential in the upcoming energy switch for its utilization in the production of electric batteries for vehicles, smart devices, renewable power plants, and other technologies helping the world transition away from fossil fuels. According to the Chilean government’s projections, global demand for lithium will quadruple by 2030, reaching 1.8 million tonnes. The Atacama region, which is also home to vast copper mines, supplies nearly one-quarter of the globe’s lithium.
The private-owned mining companies SQM and Albemarle take the lead in the commercialization and development of the material, often at the expense of the environment and small communities.
The metal is, in fact, extracted through the evaporation of brines found beneath salt flats on South America’s Atacama Plateau, a water-intensive method that drains already scarce water resources, damages wetlands, and harms communities.
Miners pump salty lithium-containing water, called brine, into massive ponds, where it can take years for the evaporation process to separate the lithium.
The displacement of villagers, forced to leave due to lack of water resources or construction sites, has also caused the disappearance of many ancient cultures and traditions of a population used to live by following the natural cycles.Kolwezi, Democratic republic of Congo (DRC). August 2023. – Mutoshi artisanal mining (ASM) COMIAKOL cooperative. Portrait of a miners. In early 2018, Chemaf set out to develop the Mutoshi concession near Kolwezi (a city of approximately 500,000 people). The cooperative intends to guarantee better conditions for 5,000 informal miners working in artisanal mining. The formalisation meant controlled access to the mine site by the partners involved in the project, open-pit operations, training and higher health and safety standards, and creating a shared financial opportunity for the local community. The reality is way different. Despite the intentions, miners dig for cobalt and copper in harsh conditions, often barefoot in tunnels much deeper than the 30mt declared. Moreover, they no longer had the opportunity to store ore until prices increased to negotiate a better deal with the company that owns the concession. Instead, they now depend on the terms set by a Chinese middleman firm operating illicitly at the accommodation and selling to larger cobalt processing companies in China, the world’s largest importer of cobalt. ***GENERAL CAPTION*** DRC accounts for around 70% of global production of Cobalt. Southern Congo sits atop an estimated 3.4 million metric tons of cobalt, almost half the world’s known supply. Hundreds of thousands of Congolese have moved to the formerly remote area in recent decades. Kolwezi now has more than half a million residents. Many Congolese have taken jobs at industrial mines in the region; others have become “artisanal diggers” or creuseurs. Cobalt is produced today from one of a number of metallic-lustred ores, such as cobaltite (CoAsS). The element is, however, more usually produced as a by-product of copper and nickel mining. Cobalt is primarily used in lithium-ion batteries and in manufacturing magnetic, wear-resistant, high-strength alloys. Between 15-30% of the cobalt from the DRC comes from informal or artisanal mines. Individuals on the periphery of sizeable industrial mining sites resort to makeshift methods to collect the cobalt. It is virtually impossible to separate artisanal cobalt from the products coming from industrialised mines. The formalisation of artisanal mining started in 2018 following years of accidents, human rights abuse and safety concerns. Cooperatives of artisanal miners are composed of 5 to 20 thousand individuals divided into small groups of 5 to 7 people. While the cooperatives are committed to reducing child labour safety concerns and providing financial opportunities for their members, the working conditions are still dangerous and inhumane. Miners manage to get a profit of 200/300 dollars a month, and most wish to find other forms of occupation. The number of artisanal miners in DRC is between 150000 and 200000.
The Thyssenkrupp steel plant in Duisburg, Germany on May 21, 2023. The integrated steelworks is the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the German industry, emitting 7.9 million tons of CO₂ per year. The steel industry accounts for one third of industrial emissions in Germany. Industrial emissions rank as the second most significant contributor to emissions, trailing only behind the energy sector.A scene at the amusement park “Wunderland Kalkar” in Kalkar, Germany on May 21, 2023. The amusement park was built around the former nuclear power plant Kalkar. The nuclear power plant was completed in 1985 but never went online due to high costs and political concerns. Today, it is considered an investment ruin. Germany completely phased out nuclear energy by 2023. Permanent disposal sites for nuclear waste have not yet been found, and it is assumed that no disposal site will be operational until 2050.Two men in front of a forest fire in Jüterbog, Germany, on June 5, 2023. The forest fire is located on a former military training ground contaminated with ammunition. Due to the presence of ammunition, dry conditions, and increasing winds, the fire spread rapidly. The fire department cannot directly combat the fire due to the risk of explosions, so they opted for a “controlled burning” of the affected woodland areas.
“My first husband was killed by Boko Haram insurgents. After his demise, things got really hard. I could not take care of myself nor my children. I decided to remarry to ease my burden.
During the first few weeks of our marriage, he was very kind and supportive. After a while, he changed and got physically abusive. He also stopped providing for me and the family.
I assumed that getting married would ease my burden but it turned out worse. Sometimes I wish I had waited a little longer, I was better off as a widow.” *Jamila, Borno, Nigeria“I went to fish and when I returned I saw thick smoke; I saw that my house had been burnt. Four of my kids suffered burns. I took them to the hospital and they stayed there for a month. My wife’s shop was also not spared; all her goods were burnt.
I was a successful fisherman and all that changed in one day.
I’m not happy at all, sometimes I pray for death. I can barely take care of myself nor my children. I lost everything I had, I’m not happy”.
Jimoh Boton, Lagos, Nigeria ETINOSAYVONNE“In 2017, I left Borno for Abuja. Before then, I lived in the same village with Boko Haram fighters for months.
When I wake up in the morning and just before I go to bed I think of all that happened. There was a time I stayed without food for 15 days because I was hiding, I also saw lots of dead bodies.
I went through hell and I can’t get it out of my head. Boko Haram is the worst thing that happened to me.”
Hajara Abubakar, 24, Borno, Nigeria ETINOSAYVONNE
