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Submissions open to URBAN Photo Awards 2021!
Magnum photography legend Bruce Gilden president of the jury
Total prize value € 23,000 / Exhibitions at Trieste Photo Days
URBAN Photo Awards international competition is ready to restart for the twelfth edition with a prize pool worth over € 23,000 and several important new features, among which stands out the presence of a living legend of street photography to chair the jury: Bruce Gilden! Submissions open from March 1 to May 31, 2021.
Promoted by Italian cultural association dotART in partnership with Trieste Photo Days, Matrix4Design and Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, this year URBAN Photo Awards offers four categories in which photographers can try their hand.
Among the great novelties of this edition, the Bruce Gilden Special Award, which will be added to “historical” sections dedicated to Single Photos (4 thematic areas: Streets, People, Spaces, Creative), Projects & Portfolio and URBAN Book Award which is dedicated to sketches of photographic books (the so-called “dummies”). The Bruce Gilden Special Prize will be reserved for street photography projects destined to be part of a prestigious photographic volume edited by Bruce Gilden himself, from which a group exhibition will also be taken.
As part of the Single Photos section, the prizes promoted in synergy with the URBAN partners also return: New Buildings, born from the partnership with Matrix4Design and dedicated to contemporary architectural photography, and the “Trieste Science+Fiction Festival” Prize for photographs inspired by science fiction in everyday life, the result of collaboration with the main Italian review dedicated to science fiction.
URBAN this year is giving away € 1,500 for the winner of the Single Photos category (personally chosen by Bruce Gilden), € 1,000 for the first Portfolio, € 500 for the Best Author, € 500 for the winner of New Buildings, a winners’ exhibit with award ceremony and gala dinner as part of the Trieste Photo Days 2021 festival (north-eastern Italy), as well as the publication of the photos in photographic magazines and in the seventh volume of URBAN unveils the City and its secrets. And, of course, several prize-exhibitions: at the Sartorio Museum in Trieste (thanks to the partnership with the Municipality of Trieste), at the Poreč Museum (Croatia) and at the Stelio Crise Library in Trieste.
As president of the jury, Bruce Gilden will be the guest of honor via Zoom at the eighth edition of Trieste Photo Days to announce the winners and hold an unmissable talk. See you in Trieste on Saturday 30 October 2021.
URBAN Photo Awards each year sees thousands of photos competing and hundreds of participants from all over the world. It is an ever-growing international contest, one of the few to “cross the boundaries” of the web, offering photographers real visibility through dozens of photographic exhibitions in the prestigious frames of the Trieste Photo Days, the Trieste Photo Fringe and the Photo Days Tour (in Italy and abroad). In 2020 alone, URBAN set up over 30 exhibitions for nearly 1,400 photos on display.
To enter URBAN 2021 all you have to do is register in the User Area and follow the procedure on the form. Those who have already registered in previous years can log in with the same credentials. Here you can find the rules.
The “Early Birds” promotion is also active this year for those who register by March 31, 2021.
Discover the sections of
URBAN 2021
Hover your mouse over on the squares for details
» SECTION #1 » SINGLE PHOTOSThis section is dedicated to single photos, which have to fall within one of the following thematic areas: STREETS / PEOPLE / SPACES / CREATIVE. Here you can also enter the New Buildings Prize (Matrix4design) and the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival Prize.
» SECTION #1 » SINGLE PHOTOS: NEW BUILDINGSPhotos representing some of the symbols of architecture that have helped change the look of the city over the past ten years. If you wish to enter, you will only have to add the category New Buildings (Matrix4Design prize) to the Single Photos running in the category SPACES. Pictures will be judged by Matrix4Design editor Andrea Boni , who will select a shortlist of the best photos and the Winner.
» SECTION #1 » SINGLE PHOTOS: TRIESTE SCIENCE+FICTION FESTIVALArtistic photographs freely inspired by science fiction in our daily life. Space for creativity, post-production, photo editing, mixed media: alien planets, visions from the future, technological cities, spaceships, robots, parallel universes, time travel, everything related to science fiction imagery and the science fiction that our reality offers. If you wish to enter, you will only have to add the category Science+Fiction (Trieste Science+Fiction Festival Prize) to the Single Photos competing in the CREATIVE category.
» SECTION #2 » PROJECTS & PORTFOLIOSHere you can submit sets of photos, linked to each other by a common trait. The sets can be in the form of photographic projects, series, thematic portfolios, reportages and storyboards (sequences of images telling a story).
» SECTION #2 » PROJECTS & PORTFOLIOS: TRIESTE MUSEUMS PRIZE4 Semifinalists projects will be selected by a special jury and exhibited in October 2021 at the prestigious Civic Museum “Sartorio” of Trieste, during Trieste Photo Days festival. All selected authors will also be awarded with a free 2 nights stay in Trieste to attend URBAN’s Award Ceremony at Trieste Photo Days 2021 festival.
» SECTION #2 » PROJECTS & PORTFOLIOS: POREC MUSEUM PRIZE 1 ranked project from the “Projects & Portfolios” section – selected directly by the curators of the museum – will be displayed in Zavičajni muzej Poreštine, in Porec, Istria (Croatia), at the end of July 2021 (tourist peak averaging 120,000 people in the summer time). Moreover, the Museum will release an official certificate of exhibition. The selected author will also be awarded with a free 2 nights stay in Trieste to attend URBAN’s Award Ceremony at Trieste Photo Days 2021 festival.
» SECTION #3 » URBAN BOOK AWARDURBAN Book Award is a new section, dedicated to extended projects, inspired by the theme Urban Life: Urban Photography. Authors can here compete with drafts of their own photographic books, in pdf format. The goal is to give the winning photographer the possibility to produce and promote their own authorial project internationally. It will be published as a paper book by dotART / URBAN and officially presented during the festival Trieste Photo Days 2021.
The new section URBAN Book Award is designed for photographers that feel the limit of 12 photos set for the Projects & Portfolio section as a restraint, and would like to submit extended projects (or larger versions of the same projects already competing in the Projects & Portfolio section).
» SECTION #4 » BRUCE GILDEN SPECIAL PRIZESpecial section in honor of the president of the jury Bruce Gilden and his characteristic street photography. The section is open to street photography Projects / Portfolios / Series destined to be part of a prestigious photographic volume edited by Bruce Gilden himself. The volume will contain 7-8 portfolios selected by him, along with one of his unpublished projects, and will be presented in preview at Trieste Photo Days 2021. The selected projects will also be exhibited in a group exhibition, also as part of the festival.
BEST AUTHORThe photographer who will rank among the best in several sections, thematic areas and/or categories, giving proof of its clear, definite style, will be declared URBAN 2021 Best Author. The prizes include: Magnum photography legend Bruce Gilden president of the jury
Total prize value € 23,000 / Exhibitions at Trieste Photo Days
URBAN Photo Awards international competition is ready to restart for the twelfth edition with a prize pool worth over € 23,000 and several important new features, among which stands out the presence of a living legend of street photography to chair the jury: Bruce Gilden! Submissions open from March 1 to May 31, 2021.
Promoted by Italian cultural association dotART in partnership with Trieste Photo Days, Matrix4Design and Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, this year URBAN Photo Awards offers four categories in which photographers can try their hand.
Among the great novelties of this edition, the Bruce Gilden Special Award, which will be added to “historical” sections dedicated to Single Photos (4 thematic areas: Streets, People, Spaces, Creative), Projects & Portfolio and URBAN Book Award which is dedicated to sketches of photographic books (the so-called “dummies”). The Bruce Gilden Special Prize will be reserved for street photography projects destined to be part of a prestigious photographic volume edited by Bruce Gilden himself, from which a group exhibition will also be taken.
As part of the Single Photos section, the prizes promoted in synergy with the URBAN partners also return: New Buildings, born from the partnership with Matrix4Design and dedicated to contemporary architectural photography, and the “Trieste Science+Fiction Festival” Prize for photographs inspired by science fiction in everyday life, the result of collaboration with the main Italian review dedicated to science fiction.
URBAN this year is giving away € 1,500 for the winner of the Single Photos category (personally chosen by Bruce Gilden), € 1,000 for the first Portfolio, € 500 for the Best Author, € 500 for the winner of New Buildings, a winners’ exhibit with award ceremony and gala dinner as part of the Trieste Photo Days 2021 festival (north-eastern Italy), as well as the publication of the photos in photographic magazines and in the seventh volume of URBAN unveils the City and its secrets. And, of course, several prize-exhibitions: at the Sartorio Museum in Trieste (thanks to the partnership with the Municipality of Trieste), at the Poreč Museum (Croatia) and at the Stelio Crise Library in Trieste.
As president of the jury, Bruce Gilden will be the guest of honor via Zoom at the eighth edition of Trieste Photo Days to announce the winners and hold an unmissable talk. See you in Trieste on Saturday 30 October 2021.
URBAN Photo Awards each year sees thousands of photos competing and hundreds of participants from all over the world. It is an ever-growing international contest, one of the few to “cross the boundaries” of the web, offering photographers real visibility through dozens of photographic exhibitions in the prestigious frames of the Trieste Photo Days, the Trieste Photo Fringe and the Photo Days Tour (in Italy and abroad). In 2020 alone, URBAN set up over 30 exhibitions for nearly 1,400 photos on display.
To enter URBAN 2021 all you have to do is register in the User Area and follow the procedure on the form. Those who have already registered in previous years can log in with the same credentials. Here you can find the rules.
The “Early Birds” promotion is also active this year for those who register by March 31, 2021.
Discover the sections of
URBAN 2021
Hover your mouse over on the squares for details
» SECTION #1 » SINGLE PHOTOSThis section is dedicated to single photos, which have to fall within one of the following thematic areas: STREETS / PEOPLE / SPACES / CREATIVE. Here you can also enter the New Buildings Prize (Matrix4design) and the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival Prize.
» SECTION #1 » SINGLE PHOTOS: NEW BUILDINGSPhotos representing some of the symbols of architecture that have helped change the look of the city over the past ten years. If you wish to enter, you will only have to add the category New Buildings (Matrix4Design prize) to the Single Photos running in the category SPACES. Pictures will be judged by Matrix4Design editor Andrea Boni , who will select a shortlist of the best photos and the Winner.
» SECTION #1 » SINGLE PHOTOS: TRIESTE SCIENCE+FICTION FESTIVALArtistic photographs freely inspired by science fiction in our daily life. Space for creativity, post-production, photo editing, mixed media: alien planets, visions from the future, technological cities, spaceships, robots, parallel universes, time travel, everything related to science fiction imagery and the science fiction that our reality offers. If you wish to enter, you will only have to add the category Science+Fiction (Trieste Science+Fiction Festival Prize) to the Single Photos competing in the CREATIVE category.
» SECTION #2 » PROJECTS & PORTFOLIOSHere you can submit sets of photos, linked to each other by a common trait. The sets can be in the form of photographic projects, series, thematic portfolios, reportages and storyboards (sequences of images telling a story).
» SECTION #2 » PROJECTS & PORTFOLIOS: TRIESTE MUSEUMS PRIZE4 Semifinalists projects will be selected by a special jury and exhibited in October 2021 at the prestigious Civic Museum “Sartorio” of Trieste, during Trieste Photo Days festival. All selected authors will also be awarded with a free 2 nights stay in Trieste to attend URBAN’s Award Ceremony at Trieste Photo Days 2021 festival.
» SECTION #2 » PROJECTS & PORTFOLIOS: POREC MUSEUM PRIZE 1 ranked project from the “Projects & Portfolios” section – selected directly by the curators of the museum – will be displayed in Zavičajni muzej Poreštine, in Porec, Istria (Croatia), at the end of July 2021 (tourist peak averaging 120,000 people in the summer time). Moreover, the Museum will release an official certificate of exhibition. The selected author will also be awarded with a free 2 nights stay in Trieste to attend URBAN’s Award Ceremony at Trieste Photo Days 2021 festival.
» SECTION #3 » URBAN BOOK AWARDURBAN Book Award is a new section, dedicated to extended projects, inspired by the theme Urban Life: Urban Photography. Authors can here compete with drafts of their own photographic books, in pdf format. The goal is to give the winning photographer the possibility to produce and promote their own authorial project internationally. It will be published as a paper book by dotART / URBAN and officially presented during the festival Trieste Photo Days 2021.
The new section URBAN Book Award is designed for photographers that feel the limit of 12 photos set for the Projects & Portfolio section as a restraint, and would like to submit extended projects (or larger versions of the same projects already competing in the Projects & Portfolio section).
» SECTION #4 » BRUCE GILDEN SPECIAL PRIZESpecial section in honor of the president of the jury Bruce Gilden and his characteristic street photography. The section is open to street photography Projects / Portfolios / Series destined to be part of a prestigious photographic volume edited by Bruce Gilden himself. The volume will contain 7-8 portfolios selected by him, along with one of his unpublished projects, and will be presented in preview at Trieste Photo Days 2021. The selected projects will also be exhibited in a group exhibition, also as part of the festival.
BEST AUTHORThe photographer who will rank among the best in several sections, thematic areas and/or categories, giving proof of its clear, definite style, will be declared URBAN 2021 Best Author. The prizes include: