August 19, 2025
This year, Red Dot Community PH and Leica Shooter Indonesia come together for a collaborative online showcase featuring the works of select Southeast Asian Leica photographers. While their images represent stories rooted in the region, their identities also drift, extend, and ripple through travel, diaspora, and encounters across the world.
The theme Witness recalls how, a little more than a century ago (1913/14), the invention of the "Liliput Kamera" by Oskar Barnack changed photography. No longer bound to heavy equipment, a photographer could move freely and capture moments as they unfold. This project also aims to celebrate in a small way the 100th year since the Leica I was introduced (1925-2025), the first mass-produced 35mm "Full-Frame" camera that reshaped modern photography. With Leica in hand, photographers became witnesses to both history and everyday life.
From August 19 to September 6, 2025, we invite everyone to follow this showcase on instagram @reddotcommunityph and @leicashooterindonesia
Cover photo: Untitled, San Francisco, 2022 | Ben Molina
Project Leaders / Curators: Robert Lie, Ruben Roe, Antonni Daso Cuesta
Witness is a collaborative photography showcase by Red Dot Community PH and Leica Shooter Indonesia. Presented to mark World Photography Day 2025, the project highlights Filipino and Southeast Asian photographers whose images reflect personal stories, shared histories, and regional perspectives.
Inspired by Leica’s Witness to a Century campaign, Witness is a community-initiated response to bring voices together and celebrate photography as a culture of seeing and sharing the world.
This project would not have been possible without the generous support of the photographers who shared their work, bringing depth and diversity of perspectives to Witness. Thank you for celebrating with us.
Red Dot Community PH is a platform dedicated to showcasing Leica photography of Filipino and Southeast Asian photographers.
The initiative began as an extension of Leica Culture PH, a private Facebook group where members found inspiration through each other’s images and engaged in conversations about Leica in detail, including its history, camera-speak, and other Leica-inspired topics.
Red Dot Community PH on Instagram and Facebook continues this culture of seeing by providing a public space for the community to share their work, making it visible not only to fellow Leica users but also to a wider audience. It also serves as a source of news, insights, and stories from Leica-related communities beyond the content available locally.
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