It's that time of year again - where the next year's Leica Wall Calendar is announced. The upcoming 2015 edition features designs by Thomas Hoepker, winner of the Leica Hall of Fame Awards 2014, which features a selection of 13 designs (color and black and white) from an extensive six decades of his life's work. The Leica Wall Calendar 2015 is an A3 format (420x297mm), published by teNeues, and is available in the Leica stores and LFI online shop. The suggested retail price is 24.95€ (about $31 USD).

New Leica wall calendar for 2015

With designs by Thomas Hoepker, winner of the Leica Hall of Fame Awards 2014

The Leica Camera AG, Wetzlar, presents a new wall calendar for 2015. As in the previous year, the annual calendar is dedicated to the winner of the Leica Hall of Fame Awards. In the 60th anniversary year of the Leica rangefinder system, the award went to Thomas Hoepker, who as Leica M photographers captured time history and reportage photography of the second half of the 20th century had a decisive influence. The Leica 2015 wall calendar features a selection of 13 designs (color and black and white) from its extensive also six decades of his life's work.

"Nothing is more interesting than reality," Thomas Hoepker once remarked, describing it - knowingly or not - very precise its own impetus. The photojournalist, born in 1936 in Munich, is known for its unhurried, subtle performance, away from noise or sensation striking designs. He is always looking for the truth of the moment and that's why one of the great figures of dedicated humanist photojournalism. As interesting as the reality is so very Hoepker be also interested in them.

At the age of 14, he made ​​the first experiments with an old glass plate camera, which he had received from his grandfather, experimenting with montages and photo frames. From 1959 he worked regularly for international journals and magazines, for decades he was one of the solid staff of the Star. First, as a photographer and photojournalist, the end of the 1980s as art director. Hoepker documented the USA in the 1960s and caused a stir with a large report from the GDR in the 1970s. His photographs of Muhammad Ali, whom he accompanied for several weeks, are already legendary. With its precise image composition, its dense image statements and his incredible visual flair Hoepker has the German photojournalism dominated like no other. He was the first German member of the Magnum Photos agency from 2003 to 2007, he was its president in 1989. He created icons of contemporary history, portraits of politicians and celebrities, documented misery and everyday life. Thomas Hoepker was in the entire world on the go and is considered one of the best photojournalist ever. And yet he has not lost the ground under his feet nor his modest basic understanding: "I'm not an artist. I am a photo producer. "

The Leica Wall Calendar 2015 in A3 format (420x297mm), published by teNeues, is available in the Leica stores and LFI online shop at www.lfi-online.de. The suggested retail price is 24.95 euros. Also appeared in teNeues is the retrospective "Wanderlust", which pays tribute to outstanding photographs by Thomas Hoepker's work over the past decades.

LEICA HALL OF FAME

The Leica Camera AG has appointed irregularly outstanding photographers in the Leica Hall of Fame, something moved with her view of the world and have changed. The testimony of her work are image icons that have burned into our collective memory, the touching and timeless illustrate the human condition. Previous winners are Nick Ut, Steve McCurry, Barbara Klemm and René Burri.