URBAN 2021 Photo Contest Timeline

01.03 » 13.06.2021

Registration open for Single Photos, Projects & Portfolios, Books

By the end of
June 2021

Selected Photographers will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked). The photographers will have the chance to participate in summer exhibitions and previews as well.

By the middle of
July 2021

Semi-finalist Photographers will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked): around 100 single photos, 50 projects & portfolios and 20 Book Award volumes will be selected.

By the end of
July 2021

Finalist Photographers will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked): around 40 single photos, 20 projects & portfolios and 5 Book Award volumes will be selected.

By the middle of
September 2021

Winner Photographs will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked): around 12 single photos, 3 projects & portfolios and 1 Book Award volume (in this case, the winner).

Saturday
24 October 2021

The final ranking will be announced during Trieste Photo Days festival. The final ranking will then be published on URBAN website and Facebook page.

Latest News

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OPENEYE Magazine Awards “Lacio Drom” by Claudio Rizzini

Our media partner OPENEYE magazine has awarded a Special Prize in the context of this year’s Trieste Photo Days festival. The prize recognises and encourages a particularly meritorious ...

10 November 2021

Four URBAN 2021 projects selected for the exhibition-prize at the Sartorio Museum in Trieste

“Where Have the Birds Gone?” by Nicolas St-Pierre wins URBAN Book Award 2021

URBAN 2021 exhibit previews at Trieste Photo Fringe & Photo Days Tour

5 August 2021

On October 3, “Real People” opens in Rome: the exhibition-tribute to Bruce Gilden by URBAN Photo Awards 2021.

28 September 2021

URBAN 2021: Harry Giglio wins the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival Special Prize

24 September 2021

URBAN 2021 group exhibit-preview opens on 25 September at the Imaginario Gallery in Sacile, Italy

23 September 2021

URBAN 2021: Francesca Pompei wins the “New Buildings” special prize

15 September 2021

The last mile: URBAN Photo Awards 2021 Winners (in alphabetical order)

10 September 2021

URBAN PHOTO AWARDS’ PHILOSOPHY

A Photography competition that turns into a Festival

URBAN Photo Awards is a photo contest that sees every year thousand of partecipating pictures and hundreds of participants from all over the world. It is an always growing international photography competition, one of the very few that goes “over the boundaries” of Internet offering to photographers real visibility through dozens of international photo exhibitions. Only in 2018 URBAN realized 47 exhibitions displaying about 950 pictures. URBAN's exhibitions culminate during Trieste Photo Days festival, which hosts the awards ceremony, the winners' collective exhibition of winners and several exhibits of the best ranked photos.

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Interviews

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Under the red sky: interview with Nayeem Siddiquee / #URBANinsights

#URBANinsights are a series of exclusive interviews and insights dedicated to the winners of URBAN Photo Awards. Let’s start this new season of #URBANinsights with Nayeem Siddiquee, overall winner of the 2021 edition of the contest, chosen by Bruce Gilden. Hello Nayeem, thank you for taking the time to give us. How would you introduce yourself to those who still don’t know ...
On 30 November 2021 / By URBAN Admin
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Follow the stories that leave something inside you: interview with Valeria Sacchetti / #URBANinsights

Third appointment with #URBANinsights, a series of exclusive interviews and insights dedicated to the winners of URBAN Photo Awards. After Harry Giglio and Beniamino Pisati, we give space to Valeria Sacchetti, winner in 2020 of the URBAN Book Award with the project Journey to the Lowlands, selected by Nick Turpin. Good morning Valeria and thank you for your time. How would you ...
On 25 January 2021 / By URBAN Admin
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Telling the soul of a place: interview with Beniamino Pisati / #URBANinsights

Here we are again with #URBANinsights, a series of exclusive interviews and insights dedicated to the winners of URBAN Photo Awards. After Harry Giglio it is the turn of Beniamino Pisati, who won the first prize in the Projects & Portfolios category with “Up There”, selected by Rebecca Norris Webb. Good morning Beniamino and thank you for your time. How would you ...
On 18 January 2021 / By URBAN Admin
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Approaching Storm: interview with Harry Giglio / #URBANinsights

With this article we inaugurate #URBANinsights, a series of exclusive interviews and insights dedicated to the winners of URBAN Photo Awards. Let’s start with Harry Giglio, overall winner of the 2020 edition of the contest. Hello Harry, thank you for taking the time to give us. How would you introduce yourself to those who still don’t know you as a photographer? I’m ...
On 11 January 2021 / By URBAN Admin
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Feel the photographer behind the picture: interview with Alain Schroeder / #URBANinsights

Fourth appointment with #URBANinsights, a series of exclusive interviews and insights dedicated to the winners of URBAN Photo Awards. After Harry Giglio, Beniamino Pisati and Valeria Sacchetti, we give space to Alain Schroeder, URBAN’s Beast Author in 2019 and 2020. Hello Alain, thank you for taking the time to speak with us. How would you introduce yourself to those who still don’t ...
On 1 February 2021 / By URBAN Admin