In this issue

Oskar Barnack Award 2011: Jan Grarup is this year’s recipient of the Oskar Barnack Award. The jury was impressed by his black & white reportage on the victims of the Haiti earthquake.

Portfolio: Access to Life. He always gets up close to the people and their lives, yet many of his images are nearly unbearable. A portfolio by Magnum photographer Alex Majoli.

Portfolio: The Nuclear Age. In November 2010 a Castor transport rolled through northern Germany. Michael Jungblut presents a refreshing perspective on the activists and on the police.

New: Leica M9-P: Enhanced with a sapphire-glass display, free of any brand signet and model designation, the M9-P is the most discreet and beautiful embodiment of the digital M.

New: Super-Elmar-M 21mm f/3.4 Asph: The successor to the Elmarit is impressively compact and produces perfect pictures.

New: V-Lux 30: A newly designed lens with 16x zoom range, an MOS sensor, a touch screen and various new functions, are the distinguishing features of this compact, all-round camera.

Image Creation: Part 8 of the workshop series with Torsten Andreas Hoffmann: the image within the image.