{"id":925607,"date":"2026-10-12T16:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925607\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:32:23","slug":"russian-photographer-wins-leica-award-for-series-on-dagestan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925607\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Photographer Wins Leica Award for Series on Dagestan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tRussian photographer Damir Faizulin has won the 2026 Leica Oskar Barnack Award for a series documenting how tourism and development are reshaping life in the mountains of Dagestan.<\/p>\n<p>Faizulin first visited Dagestan as a tourist in 2020. Sensing that the region was on the brink of rapid change, he moved there in 2021 to document its transformation.<\/p>\n<p>His winning project, \u201cPreserving Nature as Preserving Ourselves,\u201d captures the North Caucasus republic\u2019s natural beauty alongside threats to its landscapes and traditional livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to me that a photograph does not simplify reality, but rather helps us recognize its complexity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The award, presented in Wetzlar, Germany, on Oct. 8, carries a prize of 40,000 euros and Leica camera equipment worth 10,000 euros. Established in 1980, it recognizes photographic series exploring the relationship between people and their environment.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian photographer Damir Faizulin has won the 2026 Leica Oskar Barnack Award for a series documenting how tourism&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,182837,460,134,38625],"class_list":["post-925607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dagestan","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-regions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}