Alejandro Cegarra Wins Leica Oskar Barnack Award
Alejandro Cegarra's series, The Two Walls, has earned him the Leica Oskar Barnack Award after several years and 35,000 photographs.
Cegarra's work was nominated by another photographer and selected by a jury for the award.
When photographer Alejandro Cegarra set out for the US-Mexico border in 2018, he wanted to capture the struggles of migrants in a way that highlighted universally human emotions.
Cegarra was awarded the 2025 Leica Oskar Barnack Award for the series, a global award that relies on nominations from other photographers.
Author's summary: Photographer Alejandro Cegarra wins award for The Two Walls series.