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Photographer Constantine Manos is the winner of this year's Leica Medal of Excellence.

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His ten winning pictures are from an ongoing project 'American Colour' which he has been working on for many years.

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Manos' photographs capture a world of collage...

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...figures set against dark structures...

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...or lurid scenes of the American vernacular.

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"Although the pictures were made in the United States" Manos says...

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..."they do not pretend to constitute a general or definitive statement about the country or its people."

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He continues, "they are instead specific moments which exist for their own sake...

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...which charm, mystify and astonish, while asking questions without really giving answers."

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Constantine Manos is represented by Magnum Photos.