David Octavius Hill Medal
# David Octavius Hill Medal

The David Octavius Hill Medal is a prize in photography established in 1955, by the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie. It is named in honor of the Scottish artist David Octavius Hill, famous for his Hill & Adamson calotypes, most of which were developed at Adamson's studio, the "Rock House", on Calton Hill in Edinburgh.

## Recipients

* 1955: Walter Hege, Carl Adolf Schleussner, Erich Stenger, Bruno Uhl
* 1957: Albert Renger-Patzsch
* 1958: Erna Lendvai-Dircksen
* 1964: Herbert List
* 1965: Otto Steinert
* 1966: Martin Hürlimann
* 1967: Paul Strand
* 1968: Fritz Gruber
* 1969: Liselotte Strelow
* 1970: Allan Porter
* 1971: Edouard Boubat
* 1972: Regina Relang
* 1973: J.A. Schmoll, gen. Eisenwerth
* 1974: Fritz Kempe
* 1978: Heinz Hajek-Halke, Willi Moegle
* 1979: Fritz Brill, Kurt Julius
* 1981: Peter Keetman
* 1983: Helmut Gernsheim
* 1984: Robert Häusser
* 1986: John Hilliard
* 1988: Joan Fontcuberta
* 1990: Stefan Moses
* 1994: Jürgen Heinemann, Klaus Kammerichs
* 1996: Gottfried Jäger
* 1999: Dieter Appelt
* 2002: Alex Webb
* 2005: Bernhard Prinz
* 2009: Joakim Eskildsen, Cia Rinne
* 2015: Viviane Sassen
* 2019: Ute & Werner Mahler
