16th Edition
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April 2021

Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome. He studied architecture at L’Università la Sapienza, before studying photography at Istituto Italiano di Fotografia. Between 1991 and 2001 Pellegrin was represented by Agence VU in Paris. In

Francesco Cito was born in Naples (Italy) on the 5th May 1949 and now lives in Milan. After attending a technical high school, he left his studies unfinished and traveled around Europe, stopping in London

Andréa Holzherr (born in 1964 in Tübingen) lives and works in Paris as an exhibition director, publicist and curator. She studied at the Ecole du Louvre Paris as well as at the Sorbonne.She has been

We are thrilled to announce another great photographer from Magnum Photos agency in the URBAN Photo Awards 2021 jury: Paolo Pellegrin, an authentic witness of our times who for thirty years has been focused on

We are honored to host in the URBAN Photo Awards 2021 jury Francesco Cito, one of the greatest Italian photojournalists, who for forty years has been describing the war theaters around the world (including Afghanistan

Krishna Madhavan Pillai is the Chief Editor of Better Photography magazine, India’s leading monthly journal delving into the art and practice of photography, and the only member magazine of TIPA (Technical Image Press Association) from

Philippe Litzler, Editor-in-Chief of OPENEYE "The photographer is the one who sees what others look at without seeing”. Philippe Litzler attended the classes of Allan Porter, the Editor-in-Chief of the legendary CAMERA magazine, at the University of