Leica Photography, the international specialist magazine for 35mm photography, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. To mark this occasion, it is organizing a high-quality photo competition under the name of 4th Photographic Olympics together with Leica Camera AG and other partners such as Kodak, Lufthansa and Agrippina Insurance.
The competition is to be a pentathlon with four set themes in colour and a theme of the photographer's choice in black-and-white. The set themes for the colour photos are "People", "Landscapes", "Architecture" and "Action". For the black-and-white photo, photographers can choose their own theme.
However, not only allrounders have a chance of winning one of the attractive prizes, there is an incentive for specialists as well. Besides the main prizes for the winners in the pentathlon (the Photographic Olympics proper), there will be extra prizes for the winners of each category. The winner of the pentathlon, the International multi-theme Leica Champion, will receive a Leica SLR camera worth 15,000 DM, while the second prize is a Leica M6 camera worth 10,000 DM and the third prize a dissolve control unit with two Leica Pradovit RT projectors. There are also film packs of 10 Kodak T-Max T 400 CN films, vouchers for Lufthansa flights and camera insurance to be won. In all, more than a hundred prizes and premiums with a total value of over 50,000 DM are awaiting participants in the Leica 4th Photographic Olympics.
The international jury is composed of well-known professional photographers and renowned personalities from amateur photographic associations. The photos and photo series they choose will be published in the special issue of the Leica Photography International magazine, due to appear this autumn to mark the magazine's 50th anniversary.
Whether they are taking part in the pentathlon or in one category only, photographers may enter up to five pictures per theme. Both 35mm transparencies (with or without frame) or paper prints will be accepted. Prints should be min. 9x13 cm and max. 24x30 cm in size. Each picture must bear the name of its photographer, and each entry must include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. SAEs from other countries must either have German stamps affixed or 5 US dollars must be enclosed. All amateur and professional photographers are invited to take part. The photographs need not have been taken with Leica cameras.
The exact rules of the competition and the entry form are printed in issue 3/99 of the Leica Photography International magazine, which is printed in German, English and French. It can be ordered direct from Umschau Zeitschriften Verlag, Herrn Albrecht König, Stuttgarter Straße 18-24, D-60329 Frankfurt. Entries should be sent to: Datenservice A.V., Kennwort, IV. "Olympiade der Fotografie", Postfach 22, D-61203 Reichelsheim.
Closing date: July 15th, 1999.
