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The winning photo book of the 13th edition of URBAN Book Award 2022 personally selected and awarded by jury president Susan Meiselas, American photographer member of Magnum Photos.

The 8th volume of the “URBAN Unveils the City and its Secrets” series that includes the work of 297 photographers ranked in URBAN Photo Awards 2022. 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.

Italian photographer Massimiliano Faralli with the shot Jurassic Street is the Winner Overall of URBAN Photo Awards 2022, chosen by the president of the jury Nino Migliori among the first ranked in the Streets, People, Spaces and Creative categories in the Single Photos section. The […]

Here we are! This weekend the 2022 edition of URBAN Photo Awards will finally culminate at Trieste Photo Days festival with events, exhibitions, award ceremonies and exceptional guests. From Friday 28 to Sunday 30 October you can visit the winners exhibition of URBAN Photo Awards […]

Italian photographer Valentina D’Alia, with her shot The Bowl, is the winner of the New Buildings 2022 special prize, promoted for the third year in a row by URBAN Photo Awards in partnership with Matrix4Design, and dedicated to the icons of architecture who have changed […]

Life Explore Soul, by Thai street photographer Sakulchai Sikitikul, is the winning project of URBAN Book Award 2022, the section of URBAN Photo Awards dedicated to authorial projects destined to become photographic books. Life Explore Soul, selected by American photographer Susan Meiselas from over 100 […]

For the fifth year in a row, the collaboration between URBAN Photo Awards and the Municipality of Trieste will give life to a prestigious exhibition-award at the Civico Museo Sartorio for four finalist projects in the 2022 edition of the contest. The projects on display […]

On the horizon we begin to glimpse the final podium of URBAN Photo Awards 2022!Today we travel the last mile of this exciting journey: the 2022 Winners Shortlist. As usual, in strictly alphabetical order.

The jury of the New Buildings 2022 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 choice”, says Boni, […]

Projects: Anna Zemella – A Fusina; Antonio Denti – Of Warriors And Machines; Barbara Zanon – The Daily Life Of Three Brother With Autism; Brian Thomas – Urban Animals Of India; Ilya Trofimenko – We Have No Time; Jeannette Muller – Childhood Joy; John Hames […]

A selection of the best photographies from the 13th edition of the international contest URBAN Photo Awards.

Our usual “tour” of traveling exhibitions is back with the best photos of URBAN Photo Awards 2022! It’s going to be a large collective exhibition in Trieste and in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, plus Milan, Porec (Croatia), with selected venues as part of the […]

We are pleased to present URBAN unveils the City and its Secrets – Vol. 08, the official catalog of URBAN Photo Awards 2022. The volume includes all the finalist works of URBAN 2022 together with a selection of photos taken from the projects that we […]

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 Photo Awards 2022. On our Gallery you can find the Finalist Photographers, result of the average of the […]

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 Photo Awards 2022. Below you can find the Semi-finalist Photographers, result of the average of the votes of […]

URBAN Photo Awards 2022 exhibition-prize in Poreč (Croatia) will open on Thursday 28 July 2022 at 8 pm at the Poreč Museum (Zavičajni Muzej Poreštine). Elena Uljančić, director of the Museum and juror of the competition, has selected two projects for this year’s exhibition: The […]

For the past three years, the New Buildings special prize, born from the collaboration between URBAN Photo Awards and Matrix4Design, has offered a look at contemporary architectural photography, and in particular at the icons of architecture that have changed the face of cities over the […]

Today begins the path that will lead us to the announcement of the winners of URBAN Photo Awards 2022! As usual, it will be a journey full of suspense that will culminate at the end of October at Trieste Photo Days festival, Italy, where we […]

Submissions for URBAN Photo Awards 2022 are officially closed. We take this opportunity to thank the 2,800 photographers from all over the world who have chosen to test themselves with our contest and wish them sincere good luck! We are extremely satisfied with the success […]

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 […]