The Dr. Erich Salomon Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) was established in 1971 to honor outstanding use of photography in press. It celebrates the memory of the great photographer of the Weimar Republic, Dr. Erich Salomon, whom many regard as the principal founder of modern photojournalism.

The award comprises a certificate and a Leica Camera, engraved with the name of the recipient. It is presented every year, alongside the Cultural Award, as the highest distinction of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh).

Among the award winners are magazines, organizations and television as well as persons who have done photography a great service in publications or who have excelled as photojournalists.

 

 

The previous recipients

2023     Rafał Milach

2022     Susan Meiselas (USA)

2021     Hans-Jürgen Burkard, Hamburg (D)

2020     Chris Killip (USA)

2019     Stephanie Sinclair (USA)

2017     Antanas Sutkus, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2016     Rolf Nobel, Hannover (D)

2015     Josef Koudelka, Paris (F)

2014     Gerd Ludwig, Los Angeles (USA)

2013     Paolo Pellegrin, Rom (I)

2012     Peter Bialobrzeski, Hamburg (D)

2011     Heidi und Hans-Jürgen Koch, Freiburg (D)

2010     Michael von Graffenried, Paris (F)

2009     Sylvia Plachy, New York (USA)

2008     Anders Petersen, Stockholm (Sweden)

2007     Letizia Battaglia, Palermo (I)

2006     Martin Parr, Bristol (UK)

2005     Horst Faas, London (UK)

2004     Will McBride, Berlin (D)

2003     John G. Morris, Paris (F)

2002     Menschenrechtsorganisation „Reporters sans frontières“, Paris (F)

2001    Herlinde Koelbl, Neuried (D)

2000     Arno Fischer, Berlin (D)

1999     Eva Besnyö, Amsterdam (NL)

1998     René Burri, Paris (F)

1997     Peter Hunter, Den Haag (NL)

1996     Regina Schmeken, München (D)

1995     Gilles Peress, New York (USA)

1994     Mary Ellen Mark, New York (USA)

1992/3    Don McCullin, Batcombe, Somerset (UK)

1991     Robert Lebeck, Hamburg (D)

1990     Cristina García Rodero, Madrid (ES)

1989     Barbara Klemm, Frankfurt (D)

1988     Sebastiao Salgado, Aimores (Brasil)

1987     Josef H. Darchinger, Bonn (D)

1986     Peter Magubane, Johannesburg (South Africa)

1985     Robert Frank, New York (USA)

1984     Zeitschrift "Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin", Frankfurt (D)

1983     Dr. Lotte Jacobi, Deering, New Hampshire (USA), Dr. Tim Gidal, Jerusalem (Israel)

1982     Stiftung "World Press Photo", Amsterdam (NL)

1981     Bilderdienst der Deutschen Presse-Agentur (DPA), Hamburg/Frankfurt (D)

1980     Zeitschrift "GEO", Hamburg (D)

1979     WDR Fernsehreihe "Der 7.Sinn", Köln (D)

1978     Zeitschrift "National Geographic Magazin", Washington (USA)

1977     Zeitschrift "Bild der Wissenschaft", Stuttgart (D)

1976     Zeitschrift "Zeitmagazin", Hamburg (D)

1975     ZDF-Fernsehreihe "Personenbeschreibung" von Georg Stefan Troller (D)

1974     Zeitschrift "EPOCA", Mailand (I)

1973     Zeitschrift "Avenue", Amsterdam (NL)

1972     Kulturelle Monatszeitschrift "du", Zürich (CH)

1971     Zeitschrift "Stern", Hamburg (D)