{"id":43794,"date":"2026-10-22T16:45:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/?p=43794"},"modified":"2026-10-22T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:45:37","slug":"trieste-photo-days-2026-all-the-urban-photo-awards-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/trieste-photo-days-2026-all-the-urban-photo-awards-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Trieste Photo Days 2026: all the URBAN Photo Awards events"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 13th edition of Trieste Photo Days<\/strong>, the international photography festival organised by dotART <\/strong>and Exhibit Around APS<\/strong>, begins today, running in Trieste from 22 to 25 October 2026<\/strong>: four days of exhibitions, talks, workshops, portfolio reviews, guided tours, and award ceremonies. Among the highlights are the events of URBAN Photo Awards<\/strong>, now in its 17th edition. The programme includes the Awards Ceremony, talks with jury presidents Mark Power <\/strong>and Christopher Morris<\/strong>, exhibitions of the winning and selected projects, and an exhibition trail that reaches beyond the city centre all the way to Trieste Airport.<\/p>\n

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Saturday 24 October: the Awards Ceremony<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At 6pm on Saturday 24 October, Sala Xenia will host the much-anticipated URBAN Photo Awards 2026 ceremony. The winners of the Single Photos<\/strong> and Projects & Portfolios<\/strong> categories will be announced, along with the Photographer of the Year 2026<\/strong>, and the TPD Best Author 2026 \u2018Edilimpianti Innovation Partner\u2019<\/strong>. The special awards will be presented as well, including the Mark Power Special Prize, the URBAN Book Award, the URBAN Press Award, the Patricia D. Richards Legacy Award, and the Civic Museums Award. The evening will also feature the final of URBAN Photo Arena<\/strong>, the contest for photographers under 35. The semi-finals take place at 6pm on Friday 23 October, also in Sala Xenia.<\/p>\n

Presenting the prizes will be the two URBAN 2026 jury presidents, Mark Power<\/strong> (Magnum Photos) for Projects & Portfolios and Christopher Morris<\/strong> (VII Photo Agency) for Single Photos.<\/p>\n

The stelae and seals awarded to the winners are works by the artist Giorgio Celiberti<\/strong>, who will also present the Special Award for Artistic Sensitivity.<\/p>\n

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Exhibitions and international guests<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At Magazzino 26<\/strong>, in Sala Leonor Fini, British photographer Mark Power<\/strong> presents Good Morning, America<\/em>, his long-term project on the physical, social, and cultural landscape of the United States. Taking in cities, suburbs, roads, motels, signage, marginal places, and urban spaces in transition, the images explore the gap between the American myth and present-day reality, and form a portrait of a country marked by deep political and economic tensions, and by questions of identity. Alongside it is Beyond the Surface<\/em>, a group exhibition bringing together the projects selected for the URBAN Photo Awards Mark Power Special Prize.<\/p>\n

Sala Arturo Nathan hosts Christopher Morris<\/strong>\u2019s Power Structures<\/em>, which brings together images from three spheres \u2013 conflict, politics, and fashion \u2013 as different expressions of the same reality: the way power is built, represented, and exercised in contemporary society. The work spans forty years of photojournalism at the highest international level, taking in the wars in Chechnya and Iraq, private audiences at the Vatican, the White House, and the catwalks of high fashion.<\/p>\n

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At 10am on Sunday 25 October, Power and Morris will give two unmissable talks<\/strong> in Sala Lelio Luttazzi, followed by a visit to their exhibitions in Sala Fini and Sala Nathan.<\/p>\n

The festival\u2019s international guests also include Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc<\/strong>, president of the URBAN Book Award jury and author of The Atlas of Beauty<\/em>, her celebrated project on the beauty and diversity of women. At 10.30am on Saturday 24 October, Noroc will present the project at ITIS, Trieste\u2019s public social care agency, where it is on display in the Salone Monumentale. A selection of images can also be seen outdoors in Largo Niccolini.<\/p>\n

The Civico Museo Sartorio hosts Holding On<\/em> by Michele Zousmer<\/strong>, winner of the URBAN 2026 Civic Museums Award. The project is an intimate look at a condition that is as personal as it is social: the loneliness of older women in Romania and Bulgaria. Marcel van Beek<\/strong>, winner of the Patricia D. Richards Legacy Award, presents The Future Was Extracted Here<\/em> in Sala Arturo Fittke. The work explores the lignite fields around Leipzig and the transformation of a landscape shaped by mining.<\/p>\n

Other international photographers add to the exhibition programme. At Magazzino 26, Canadian photographer Ian Willms <\/strong>presents The Hound<\/em>, chosen by Matt Black for the 2025 Online Projects Selection, and will run a workshop on Saturday 24 October. Daniel Ramos<\/strong>, winner of the Projects & Portfolios section at URBAN Photo Awards 2025, is showing Carnival on the Outskirts<\/em> in Sala Xenia and is among the masterclass tutors. Belgian photographer Rudy Gadeyne<\/strong>, who received an honourable mention at the URBAN Book Award 2026 for A Book of Man<\/em>, will lead a photo walk around the city.<\/p>\n

Explore the 2026 programme<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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URBAN exhibitions around the city<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The 17th edition of URBAN Photo Awards<\/strong> received more than 20,000 images from around the world. A selection of them is on display in URBAN Unveils the City and its Secrets<\/em><\/strong>, a project that takes photography out of conventional exhibition venues and into places that are part of the city\u2019s daily life.<\/p>\n

ITIS \u2013 Azienda Pubblica di Servizi alla Persona<\/strong>, on Via Pascoli, hosts more than 400 photographs capturing the variety of urban life in major cities and small towns alike. Faces, everyday gestures, architecture, and unexpected glimpses make up a journey through the energy and poetry of cities. Among the images on display are seven projects on communities, traditions, and places.<\/p>\n

A second selection of more than 150 photographs is exhibited at Palazzo delle Poste Centrali <\/strong>in Piazza Vittorio Veneto, together with six portfolios on the relationship between people and the places they pass through every day: walks, journeys on public transport, and transit spaces.<\/p>\n

A third selection can be seen at the Mercato Coperto<\/strong>, in the exhibition Urban Photographs: Trieste and the Cities of the World<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The URBAN Photo Awards 2026 winners\u2019 exhibition, featuring work from the main categories, is on display in Sala Xenia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Outside the city, the URBAN Photo Awards exhibitions at Trieste Airport<\/strong> offered a preview of the autumn programme, bringing the competition into the terminal.<\/p>\n

Rounding off the programme is the Trieste Photo Fringe<\/strong>, a circuit that brings a selection of URBAN images to bars and other venues across the city, continuing beyond the festival dates.<\/p>\n

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With the Awards Ceremony, talks with international photographers, and exhibitions in museums, public spaces, and everyday places, Trieste Photo Days 2026 is the high point of the URBAN Photo Awards calendar. It is a chance to discover the projects selected by the competition and to meet the photographers whose work tells the stories of cities, people, and communities, and of a changing world.<\/p>\n

All dates, times, and venues are listed in the full festival programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Explore the 2026 programme<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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