Unreality star
Nov 13, 2018
3 minutes
Taking home the main prize in the prestigious Leica Oskar Barnack Award is no mean feat. With a € 25,000 prize and a Leica M10 camera up for grabs, as well as the enormous cachet that winning it brings, it's easy to see why the competition attracts some of the very best contemporary photojournalism.
Belgian photographer Max Pinckers shot this year's winning series. Captured while he was on assignment in North Korea for with the American journalist Evan Osnos, it uses harsh ringlight flash to highlight the ‘unreality' presented to the journalists.
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