{"id":39465,"date":"2025-09-05T16:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/?p=39465"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:34:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:34:30","slug":"andrea-bettancini-wins-urban-press-award-2025-with-the-sound-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/andrea-bettancini-wins-urban-press-award-2025-with-the-sound-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Bettancini Wins URBAN Press Award 2025 with The Sound of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are pleased to announce that <\/span><b>Andrea Bettancini<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with his project <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sound of Silence<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is the winner of the <\/span><b>URBAN Press Award 2025<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prize is awarded by a jury composed of representatives from some of the most influential photography and visual culture publications, Media Partners of the URBAN Photo Awards:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Bob Patterson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Street Photography Magazine<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cyrielle Gendron<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PHOTO.fr<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Federica Berzioli<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IL FOTOGRAFO<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>James Artaius<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital Camera World<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Nora Lalle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pamplemousse Magazine<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Philippe Litzler<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OPENEYE<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>SuzAnne Steben<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Photographic Journal<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Tomasz Trzebiatowski<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FRAMES<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sound of Silence<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> listens to the quiet hidden within the clamour. In this series, the familiar din of the streets gives way to something more intimate and introspective: an invisible, everyday hum that takes shape through isolated presences, gazes, and subtle visual rhythms. The project unfolds as a flow of images\u2014fragments of a visual thought suspended between harmony and dissonance, proximity and distance. Bettancini captures not the spectacle of the masses, but the pause, the breath, the stillness. His lens doesn\u2019t follow noise; it traces its echo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this recognition, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sound of Silence<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> joins a growing collection of award-winning projects that embody the mission of URBAN: to explore the human landscape through photography that is both immediate and reflective.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><b>About the author: Andrea Bettancini<\/b><\/h3>\n<div class=\"rgg-container\" data-rgg-id=\"1\">    <div class=\"rgg-imagegrid captions-overlay-hover-show captions-effect-slide_up \" data-rgg-id=\"1\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-4.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-0\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-4.jpg\" data-ratio=\"0.733\" data-height=\"1000\" data-width=\"733\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-5.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-0\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-5.jpg\" data-ratio=\"0.733\" data-height=\"1000\" data-width=\"733\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-6.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-0\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-6.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.4197530864198\" data-height=\"810\" data-width=\"1150\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-7.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-0\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-7.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.4197530864198\" data-height=\"810\" data-width=\"1150\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All my education was focused on creativity, starting with art school, and then I pursued the fashion department at <\/span><b>IED in Milan.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I worked as a designer in Milan for various clothing brands and collaborated with an architecture magazine of the Mondadori group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photography has always been a passion of mine, ever since the days of analog photography with nights spent in the darkroom among the basins of acids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>I have a preference for reportage, street photography, and photographic storytelling in general, exploring the fusion and contamination of images to develop a non-analytical visual language.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rgg-container\" data-rgg-id=\"2\">    <div class=\"rgg-imagegrid captions-overlay-hover-show captions-effect-slide_up \" data-rgg-id=\"2\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-3.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-1\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-3.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.4197530864198\" data-height=\"810\" data-width=\"1150\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-1\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-2.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.4197530864198\" data-height=\"810\" data-width=\"1150\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-8.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-1\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-8.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.4197530864198\" data-height=\"810\" data-width=\"1150\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My achievements include being a shortlist in the <\/span><b>Sony Awards 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> professional documentary section, winning the <\/span><b>ND Awards 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the long exposures category, and being a finalist in the <\/span><b>URBAN Photo Awards 2022\/2023<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (portfolio) and the <\/span><b>World Water Day competitions in 2019 and 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I was also the winner of the <\/span><b>All About Photo The Mind\u2019s Eye 2023<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a finalist in the <\/span><b>Gomma Black &amp; White Awards 2023<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with the final results still pending. Furthermore, I have been recognized as the <\/span><b>best author at the main Italian FIAF competitions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including Follonica, Golden chip, Cameri, Murlo, and Brugine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instagram:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/andreabettancini\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@andreabettancini<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that Andrea Bettancini, with his project The Sound of Silence, is the winner of the URBAN Press Award 2025. The prize is awarded by a jury composed of representatives from some of the most influential photography and visual culture publications, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[530,6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39465"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39746,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39465\/revisions\/39746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}