title: David Octavius Hill Medal
text: # 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
  