Leica Society International Announces the 2025 Photo Grant Recipient: Laura Pannack
Leica Society International is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2025 LSI Photography Grant in the amount of $7500 and a Leica M11 with a lens (courtesy of Leica USA).
Congratulations to Laura Pannack. Look for her Leica Gallery Show in London, May 2026.
The 2025 LSI Photography Grant runner up, Adam Rhouana, will also be featured in the London Leica gallery in May 2026.
Laura Pannack
Laura Pannack
I am a London-based photographic artist with a focus on youth and time. I fuse my passion for psychology and creativity, often collaborating with a variety of practitioners. I believe in a process built on shared experiences. Using my camera as a bridge, I approach my subjects with curiosity and limitless expectations, seeking engagement, connection, and a unique experience.
My goal is to dig beneath the surface, challenging what we think we see. I’m driven by self-initiated, research-led projects that push me to grow both as an artist and an individual. Many of my projects span several years, allowing the narrative to naturally develop over time. By primarily shooting on analogue film, I embrace an organic process that is shaped by chance and fate, rather than by fixed ideas.
My work is designed to tell and inspire stories. I aim to connect and emotionally engage with viewers, hoping that when you look at my images, you’ll find your own story reflected in them too.
Project: The Journey Home
Making our way home from school is a simple, nostalgic, universal activity we can all relate to. This daily commute has its own set of challenges in South Africa- a country with the greatest social divide and largest growing youth population in the world. This project explores the tumultuous public life of young people in the gang governed Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa.
Dialogue forms as cameras change hands between me and the youth — a partnership to produce material which offers a rare insight into their confusing and challenging world of adolescence. (Student image)
Together we walk to and home from school avoiding the daily threat of gang crossfire. Dialogue forms as cameras change hands between me and the youth— a partnership to produce material which offers a rare insight into their confusing and challenging world of adolescence
Image Gallery
Runner-Up
Adam Rouhana
Adam Rhouana
Adam Rouhana (b. 1991, Boston, MA) is a Palestinian-American photographer based between Jerusalem and London. Rouhana’s photography works to deconstruct orientalism through his subjective lens within the broader context of Palestine. Through the introduction of new narratives, Rouhana’s work embraces themes of the past to create a contemporary Palestinian visuality characterized by representations of Palestinian lives that embody an active ethic of self-determination.
Project: Before Freedom
Shot in Jerusalem, Jericho, Haifa, Hebron, Bethlehem and across historic Palestine over the past three years, Before Freedom shows the full prism of life in a place so often talked about but rarely truly seen: children play, friends swim and families picnic, and time passes unremittingly.
By photographing the quotidian and affirming the social and the material reality of Palestinian life today, Rouhana’s work forms a narrative gestalt that aims to denaturalize outdated representations that enable the ongoing violence against Palestinians.
PHOTO GALLERY
LSI wishes to thank our preliminary judges and this year’s group of judges Trish Lambe, Sara Terry, Laura Ettel, Tom Smith, and Michael Foley.