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Our usual “tour” of traveling exhibitions is back with the best photos of URBAN 2021 Photo Awards! It’s going to be a large collective exhibition in Trieste and in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, plus Rome, Milan, Porec (Croatia), with selected venues as part of […]

The president of the jury of URBAN Photo Awards 2021 Bruce Gilden has personally selected the projects that will be published on Real People – A tribute to Bruce Gilden, the photographic volume in honor of him, born as a special prize in the context […]

The 7th volume of the “URBAN Unveils the City and its Secrets” series that includes the work of 250 photographers ranked in URBAN Photo Awards 2021. The series provides the reader with an overview of stories told through images. These images have in common an element which is either obvious or just hardly visible, and all together they make up an organic collage that reveals the City and its secrets.

Good news! After the publication of the Semi-finalist Photographers we have reached the third step of the path that will lead us to the Winners of URBAN 2021 Photo Awards. Below you can find the Finalist Photographers for each category, result of the average of […]

From Tuesday 3 August to Thursday 30 September 2021 the Poreč Museum (Croatia) will host the URBAN Photo Awards 2021 exhibition-prize. Elena Uljančić, director of the Museum and juror of the competition, has selected the project: Gotham Memories: New York City Images Of The 1970s […]

The jury of the New Buildings 2021 special prize, represented by Matrix4Design founder Andrea Boni, has selected the ten finalist photographs, on the basis of criteria that combine the formal care of the shot with the emotional power of the image. “The images chosen”, says […]

Good news! After the publication of the Selected Photographers we have reached the second step of the path that will lead us to the Winners of URBAN 2021 Photo Awards. Below you can find the Semi-finalist Photographers for each category, result of the average of […]

Andrea Boni, juror of URBAN Photo Awards and founder of Matrix4Design magazine, has selected the shortlist of 30 photographs out of over 169 submitted for the New Buildings 2021 Special Prize. The prize, created together with Matrix4Design and promoted for the second year in a […]

We have reached the first step of the path that will lead us to the Winners of this incredible 12th edition of URBAN Photo Awards. A path full of suspense that will culminate on October 30, 2021 during Trieste Photo Days festival: on that day […]

URBAN 2021 Photo Awards submissions are officially closed. We’d like to thank the many participants from the bottom of our hearts and wish everyone a sincere “good luck”! We are extremely satisfied with the success of this incredible 12th edition, both in terms of the […]

We are currently checking the huge amount of submissions received in these hours! In this phase uploads will remain open for a few days for the latest submissions and to solve any eventual upload problems. Do not hesitate to contact us for troubleshooting! If you […]

I want to enter URBAN 2021 Photo Awards. Am I still in time? Yes but hurry up! Subissions are open until Sunday, June 13th, 2021. Can I submit only 1 photo? Sure, photographers can participate with as many pictures as they want. Can I submit […]

It’s the last week of registrations! This Sunday, June 13th, will be the last day to submit your photos, projects and books to URBAN 2021 Photo Awards! Hurry up! The competition in pills: An international Jury chaired by Bruce Gilden, Paolo Pellegrin and Francesco Cito […]

A new prize-exhibition offered in collaboration with the Study Center of Umberto Mastroianni’s work and the Il Cigno GG Edizioni publishing house! We told you about it a few months ago and now we can officially announce it: a new, incredible prize-exhibition that we are […]

Our technical partner PhotographyCourse.net is not done yet! Aside from the massive giveaways of their courses as our prizes, they are going above and beyond by inviting 3 winners to guest on a 1on1 interview on Great Big Photography World Podcast. With its 20,000+ and […]

We are so thrilled to add another exciting course on our prize pool for the URBAN 2021 Photo Awards. Our generous technical partner PhotographyCourse.net confirmed that they will be giving away 10 of their upcoming Self Portrait Photography Course, valued at € 199 each for […]

We are honored to confirm our partnership with our friends from PhotographyCourse.net, an international website that produces amazing courses and resources for photographers of all levels. PhotographyCourse.net will give away 6 of their pioneer course, the 365 Days of Photography Course for URBAN 2021 Winners, […]

We are thrilled to welcome Fujifilm Italia among the technical partners of URBAN Photo Awards 2021! Fujifilm Italia will be giving away a Fujifilm X100V camera worth over € 1,500 for the Overall Winner of the contest! The Fujifilm X100V is a prime-lens compact camera […]

The jurors of URBAN Photo Awards 2021 can’t wait to see your work! It’s a unique opportunity to test your creativity internationally together with photographers from all over the world. There is time until May 31 to enter the contest with photos, projects or “dummies” […]

A new important prize is added to this 12th edition of URBAN Photo Awards, thanks to the partnership with the School of Creative Photography (Cracow, Poland). The School will award the URBAN 2021 winner with a 6-month scholarship (€ 1,500 value) to attend the English […]