Submissions open from April 1st

Prizes

  • Winner – Single Pictures: € 2,000
  • Winner – Portfolio: € 2,000
  • Winner – Book Award: € 600
  • Winner – Zine Awards: € 300
  • Winner – Photo Arena: € 600
  • Press Award: € 500
  • Exhibitions at Trieste Photo Days

… and many more!

Submissions

  • Single Photo
    € 15 First photo
    € 9 Every further photo
  • Portfolio € 35
  • Book Award € 20
  • Zine Award € 10
  • Photo Arena (UNDER 35) Free

Sections

  • 01. Single Photos
  • 02. Projects & Portfolios
  • 03. URBAN Book Award
  • 04. URBAN Book & Zine Awards
  • 05. URBAN Photo Arena (U35 young)

Jury (still updating)

  • Harry Gruyaert
  • Adam Pretty

… and many more!

URBAN Photo Awards: the contest that becomes the heart of Trieste Photo Days festival

Timeline URBAN Photo Awards 2023

01.04 » 9.06.2023

Submissions open for Single Photos, Projects & Portfolios, Books, Zines and Photo Arena

By the end of June 2024

Selected Photographers will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked). 20% of selected photographers will have the chance to participate in summer exhibitions and previews as well.

By the middle of July 2024

Editor’s Choice Photographers will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked): about 800 single photos, 100 projects & portfolios and 20 Book Award volumes will be selected.

By the end of July 2024

Finalist Photographers will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked): about 200 single photos, 30 projects & portfolios and 5 Book Award volumes will be selected.

Mid-September 2024

Shortlist will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked): about 40 single photos, 5 projects & portfolios, 3 Book Award volumes and 3 Zines

Saturday 26 October 2024

Winner announcement and award ceremony live at Trieste Photo Days: overall winner, first classified, honorable mentions, special selected.

The international photo contest dedicated to young talents!
Submit your photo to URBAN Photo Arena 2024! Other than competing for victory you will be able to experience the competition as a juror voting the competing photos.
Get your work seen by our international jurors and special guests!

Learn More
Jury 2023
Jury President
Belgian photograper, Magnum Photos member
Australian Pro Photographer
See all Jurors
URBAN Highlights
URBAN 2022: Italian photography legend Nino Migliori in the super-commission of jurors
URBAN 2022: Susan Meiselas will choose the winner of the “Book Award” section
URBAN 2021 Real People – A tribute to Bruce Gilden @ Roma
On October 3, “Real People” opens in Rome: the exhibition-tribute to Bruce Gilden by URBAN Photo Awards 2021
URBAN 2020 Awards Ceremony with Alex Webb @ Museo Revoltella / Trieste Photo Days 2020
URBAN 2019 Award Ceremony @ Trieste Photo Days
URBAN’s exhibits around the world

A photographic contest that becomes the heart of a Festival

URBAN Photo Awards is a photo contest that sees every year thousand of partecipating pictures and hundreds of participants from all over the world. It is an always growing international photography competition, one of the very few that goes “over the boundaries” of Internet offering to photographers real visibility through dozens of international photo exhibitions. URBAN’s exhibitions culminate during Trieste Photo Days festival, which hosts the awards ceremony, the winners’ collective exhibition of winners and several exhibits of the best ranked photos.