Submissions open from April 1st

URBAN 2023 - Open Exhibitions
Urban Events
Trieste Photo Days

OPENING: THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER 2023  - CLOSING: SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2023

Trieste Photo Days

 

Urban Events
Trieste Photo Fringe

Trieste Photo Fringe brings your photos and projects around the city. Explore the exhibition at HOME Sapore di Casa (via Muratti)  in Trieste.

Trieste Photo Fringe

Trieste Photo Fringe brings your photos and projects around the city. Explore the exhibition at HOME Sapore di Casa (via Cassa di Risparmio) in Trieste.

Prizes

  • Winner – Single Pictures: € 2,000
  • Winner – Portfolio: € 2,000
  • Winner – Book Award: € 500
  • Winners – Photo Arena: € 1200
  • Press Award: € 500
  • Winner – Matrix4Design: € 500
  • Exhibits at Trieste Photo Days

… and many more!

Submissions

  • Single Photo
    € 15 First photo
    € 10 Every further photo
  • Portfolio € 40
  • Book Award € 20
  • Photo Arena € 10

Sections

  • 01. Single Photos
  • 02. Projects & Portfolios
  • 03. URBAN Book Award
  • 04. URBAN Photo Arena

Jury

  • Alec Soth
  • Jérôme Sessini
  • Kadir van Lohuizen
  • Simone Bramante
  • Tatsuo Suzuki

… and many more!

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

Timeline URBAN Photo Awards 2023

01.03 » 11.06.2023

Submissions open for Single Photos, Projects & Portfolios, Books

By the end of June 2023

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 2023

Semi-finalist Photographers will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked): around 200 single photos, 50 projects & portfolios and 20 Book Award volumes will be selected.

By the end of July 2023

Finalist Photographers will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked): around 70 single photos, 20 projects & portfolios and 5 Book Award volumes will be selected.

Mid-September 2023

Shortlist will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked): around 30 single photos, 5 projects & portfolios and 1 Book Award volume (in this case, the winner).

Saturday 29 October 2023

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 2023! 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 jury composed by international special guests like the Magnum photographers Alec Soth, Jerome Sessini and Kadir Van Lohuizen!

Learn More
Jury 2023
Japanese photographer. Founder of the VoidTokyo photographers collective.
Projects & Portfolios jury commission
Documentary photograper, Magnum Photos member
Jury President
American photograper, Magnum Photos member
URBAN Book Award jury commission
Dutch photograper, NOOR Images Member
Press Award commission
German photographer, editor-in-chief of Tagree, the online magazine for photography & art
See all Jurors
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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.