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Our media partner OPENEYE magazine has awarded a Special Prize in the context of this year’s Trieste Photo Days festival. The prize recognises and encourages a particularly meritorious emerging talent whose work just failed to make the final mix of main prize winners selected by […]

Bengali photographer Nayeem Siddiquee with the shot Somewhere under the red sky is the Winner Overall of URBAN Photo Awards 2021, chosen by president of the jury Bruce Gilden among the first ranked in the Streets, People, Spaces and Creative categories in the Single Photos […]

URBAN Photo Awards 2021 awards ceremony will be held on Saturday 30 October 2021 from 5.45 pm at the Auditorium of the Revoltella Museum as part of the Trieste Photo Days festival. President of the jury Bruce Gilden will be in live streaming to reveal […]

For the fourth year in a row, the collaboration between URBAN Photo Awards and the Museums and Libraries Service of the Municipality of Trieste will give life to a prestigious exhibition-prize at the Civico Museum Museo Sartorio for four finalist projects in the 2021 edition […]

La street photography del maestro newyorkese Bruce Gilden dialoga con le opere in suo onore REAL PEOPLE, la mostra-tributo a Bruce Gilden, sarà visitabile da domenica 3 a domenica 24 ottobre 2021, alla Galleria “Umberto Mastroianni”, nel complesso dei Musei di San Salvatore in Lauro, […]

American photographer Harry Giglio, already 2020 Winner Overall of URBAN Photo Awards, wins the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival Special Prize with his shot Time Traveler. The jury commission, Daniele Trani, Lorenzo del Porto and Daniele Braida, motivated its choice as follows: “It looks like a frame […]

We’re getting to the heart of the Photo Days Tour 2021, the frame of events taking place outside the city as part of the Trieste Photo Days festival! One of the numerous group exhibitions of URBAN Photo Awards will open on Saturday 25 September at […]

Italian photographer Francesca Pompei, with her shot Sharada #4, is the winner of the New Buildings 2021 special prize, promoted for the second year in a row by URBAN Photo Awards in partnership with Matrix4Design, and dedicated to the icons of architecture that have changed […]

Here we are! It’s the day of the highly anticipated announcement of the 2021 Winning photographers, which for the URBAN Photo Awards contestants represents the last mile of an exciting journey to the final podium. As always, Winners are published in alphabetical order. To find […]

We are pleased to announce the Finalists of the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival special prize, promoted as part of URBAN Photo Awards 2021 international photo competition. The jury commission (Daniele Trani, Lorenzo del Porto and Daniele Braida) has selected 12 photographs from over 70 competing. Congratulations […]

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 […]

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 […]