For the sixth year in a row, the collaboration between URBAN Photo Awards and the Municipality of Trieste will give life to a prestigious exhibition-award at the Civico Museo Sartorio for four finalist projects in the 2023 edition of the contest.

The projects on display were selected by Claudia Colecchia (Archivist executive officer, head of the Fototeca e Biblioteca dei Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte del Comune di Trieste) and Michela Messina (Conservator of the Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte, responsible for the Civico Museo d’Arte Orientale).

The group exhibit will be held as part of the Trieste Photo Days 2023 festival and will be open from 27 October to 26 November 2023, from Thursday to Sunday from 10.00 to 17.00.

The four selected authors will attend the inauguration and award ceremony to present their projects to the public (date and time TBD).

Winning projects:

Alain Schroeder – Lelo

“Lelo Burti” is a Georgian sport, which combines elements of wrestling and rugby  and is played once a year on the Georgian Orthodox Easter Sunday in the small village of Shukhuti.

Andrea Bettancini – The failure of reason

The Montecatini colony in Cervia was designed in 1937 by a Jewish architect Eugenio Faludi a year before the promulgation of the Italian racial laws. The censorship imposed on him after the “Declaration of race” in 1938, erased the memory of the paternity of this magnificent example of Italian rationalist architecture.

Giovanni Sacco – Memento Mori

Memento mori, remember that you have to die, is a Latin saying that stresses the impermanence of all things, and reminds that all things, including us, must die.

Martina D’Agresta – Tempra

A feminine noun with a double meaning: a heat treatment of metals aimed at improving its properties strength and bending mechanics or a set of psychic and spiritual qualities of an individual with a marked connotation of solidity and vigor.