STREETS – The Single Photos Category at the URBAN Photo Awards

The international Urban Photo Awards features multiple categories in which photographers can explore the complexity of cities around the world and capture their essence. Among these, the STREETS category in the Single Photos section celebrates street photography as an autonomous and distinctive art form: a discipline that demands presence, patience and the ability to read the city as an ever-changing text, seizing the moment when light, space and human presence align into something unrepeatable.

The category welcomes everything the city has to offer: streets, squares, alleys and neighbourhoods, but also transport, nightlife, events, demonstrations, the animals that share the city with us, and any subject that resists precise classification but is an integral part of the urban fabric. You just need to know how to look: every corner has something extraordinary to reveal.

Photographers are free to experiment with different techniques and styles, both in shooting and in post-production. Image processing is permitted, but excessive retouching is not allowed.

The Single Photos jury is led by Christopher Morris, one of the defining figures of international photojournalism. A founding member of VII Photo Agency and a contributor to TIME Magazine from 1990 to 2020, he has covered nearly thirty conflicts and the presidencies of Bush and Obama, earning recognition including the Robert Capa Gold Medal and multiple World Press Photo awards. A career built over decades on the streets of the world — across conflict zones, corridors of power and fashion runways — makes him a natural interpreter of a category that takes the street as its very own element.
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