{"id":42911,"date":"2026-07-02T17:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/?p=42911"},"modified":"2026-07-03T21:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:51:45","slug":"submissions-to-urban-photo-awards-2026-are-now-closed-thank-you-to-all-our-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/submissions-to-urban-photo-awards-2026-are-now-closed-thank-you-to-all-our-photographers\/","title":{"rendered":"Submissions to URBAN Photo Awards 2026 are now closed: thank you to all our photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Submissions to the <strong>17th edition of URBAN Photo Awards<\/strong> have officially closed: <strong>a heartfelt thank you <\/strong>to all the photographers who joined us this year. With entries from photographers around the world and an ever-rising standard of work, URBAN once again proves itself able to connect a global community and reach beyond the boundaries of the digital world.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers from this edition reflect a contest in constant growth: nearly <strong>20,000 images <\/strong>submitted by around <strong>5,000 photographers<\/strong> worldwide, across <strong>Single Images<\/strong>, <strong>Projects &amp; Portfolios<\/strong> and books entered for the <strong>Book Award<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Our jury is already at work, selecting from thousands of images those that best capture the complexity of urban life.<\/p>\n<p>Finalists will be announced soon, while the winners will be revealed during the<strong> URBAN Photo Awards Award Ceremony<\/strong>, taking place on <strong>Saturday 24 October<\/strong> as part of <strong>Trieste Photo Days<\/strong>, the international photography festival held in the beautiful city of Trieste. In the presence of jurors <strong>Mark Power<\/strong> and <strong>Christopher Morris<\/strong>, the ceremony will celebrate <strong>every category<\/strong> of the contest, honouring the talent and creativity of all participating photographers. The special awards, the <strong>URBAN Press Award<\/strong> and the <strong>Patricia D. Richards Legacy Award<\/strong>, will also be presented, along with the title of <strong>Photographer of the Year 2026<\/strong>. Selected works will also feature in the festival&#8217;s exhibitions, including <strong><em>Beyond the Surface<\/em><\/strong>, the group show personally <strong>curated by Mark Power<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Once again this year, <strong>Giorgio Celiberti<\/strong>, an artist of the Venice Biennale, will craft the trophies and medals for the contest, each accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, and will present the Artistic Sensitivity Award.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>special thank you<\/strong> goes to our <strong>partners<\/strong> and <strong>jury members<\/strong>, whose commitment makes every edition of URBAN possible, and of course to <strong>all the photographers<\/strong> behind what promises to be an extraordinary edition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submissions to the 17th edition of URBAN Photo Awards have officially closed: a heartfelt thank you to all the photographers who joined us this year. With entries from photographers around the world and an ever-rising standard of work, URBAN once again proves itself able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42912,"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\/42911"}],"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=42911"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43089,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42911\/revisions\/43089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}