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Schadeberg Honored With 2018 Leica Hall of Fame Award
16 November 2018
Leica has announced that it has awarded the 2018 Leica Hall of Fame Award to photojournalist Jürgen Schadeberg.
"With a stunning collection of life works spanning more than seventy years, including his world-famous photo of Nelson Mandela looking through the bars of his former prison cell, Jürgen Schadeberg has never lost his humanistic view of the world," the company said in announcing the award.
Born and raised in Berlin, Schadeberg emigrated to South Africa in 1950 where he established himself as a photojournalist. Marked by his own experiences of European racism, he encountered a deeply divided country in which the black majority was brutally oppressed by the white minority.
With his camera he covered pivotal events in South Afrida in the 1950s including the Defiance Campaign of 1952, the 1956 Treason Trial, the Sophiatown removals of 1955, the Sophiatown jazz and social scene, the Sharpeville funeral of 1960 and pictures of Robben Island inmates.
Among the noted personalities he photographed have been Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo, Trevor Huddleston and Govan Mbeki. Schadeberg also photographed jazz legends Dolly Rathebe, Kippie Moeketsi, Thandi Klaasen and Miriam Makeba.
Schadeberg left South Africa in 1964, working as a freelance photographer in Europe and the U.S. during the '60s and '70s. He first returned to Johannesburg in 1985, where he concentrated on the second South African chapter of his photographic work until 2007.
The Leica Hall of Fame honors "exceptional photographers whose view of the world has changed it or set things in motion," the company said.
The Leica Galerie Wetzlar will showcase Schadeberg's work through Feb. 17, 2019. Admission is free.
For more information see the news release below.
Photojournalist Jürgen Schadeberg Receives the 2018 Leica Hall of Fame Award
Leica Galerie Wetzlar to showcase Schadeberg's iconic work from Nov. 16 through Feb. 17, 2019
With a stunning collection of life works spanning more than 70 years, including his world-famous photo of Nelson Mandela looking through the bars of his former prison cell, Jürgen Schadeberg has never lost his humanistic view of the world. Many of his pictures have become timeless icons and because of this, he is the latest photographer to receive the Leica Hall of Fame Award.
Leica Camera honors exceptional photographers whose view of the world has changed it or set things in motion with a place in the Leica Hall of Fame and Schadeberg has certainly earned his place in this prestigious collection.
As a photojournalist and representative of Life Photography, Schadeberg has always shown an impartial interest in the living conditions of his contemporaries. He always approached and treated the people he portrayed with empathy and respect, no matter what their nationality or color of their skin. Born and raised in Berlin, he emigrated to South Africa in 1950 and established himself there as a photojournalist. Marked by his own experiences of European racism, he encountered a deeply divided country in which the black majority of the population was brutally oppressed by the white minority. Unprejudiced, passionate and inquisitive: these character traits enabled Schadeberg to shoot again and again in situations and places where most of his white contemporaries would never have dared to go. He became a chronicler of an epoch, not least through his work for Drum Magazine, the most important forum for the black majority of the population in South Africa.
Schadeberg left South Africa in 1964 and worked during the sixties and seventies as a freelance photographer in Europe and the USA. Here too, he remained true to his empathic approach to photography. He first returned to Johannesburg in 1985, where he concentrated on the second South African chapter of his photographic work until 2007.
The Leica Galerie Wetzlar will showcase Schadeberg's work from today through Feb. 17, 2019. The Galerie is open from Monday to Friday between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free. Further information can be found at http://www.leica-camera.com.