Unveiled the winners of the 15. edition of URBAN Photo Awards 2024
Bangladeshi photographer Sanchayan Chowdhury with the shot “Eid Journey” is the Photographer of the Year URBAN Photo Awards 2024, chosen by the president of the jury Harry Gruyaert among all the first ranked in the Streets, People, Spaces and Creative categories in the Single Photos section.
The Winner was announced and awarded live at the URBAN Photo Awards ceremony, Saturday 26 October at the Auditorium of the Museo Revoltella, as part of the eleventh edition of Internationl Photography Festival Trieste Photo Days.
Sanchayan Chowdhury – Eid Journey
The winner of the Projects & Portfolios section is Polish photographer Krzysztof Bednarski with “La Vida Lenta”, selected by Adam Pretty.
Paul Gadd, designated juror of the URBAN Book Award section, has awarded STEEL, SEA AND SORROW by italian photographer Maria Pansini.
2024 was a year rich in new prizes and categories:
- the URBAN Zine Award – a section dedicated to printed projects in zine format
- the Special Prize for Artistic Sensitivity, a prize for the most artistic Single photo personally chosen by Giorgio Celiberti
- and The Patricia D. Richards Legacy Award – dedicated to the U35 authors from the Projects and Portfolio section.
The first edition of the URBAN Zine Award was given to italian Nadia Marmondi with “Divenire” , selected by Federica Berzioli.
The Artistic Sensitivity award went to Marie-Laure Vareilles and “AVATAR’S MOUNTAIN PAINTER…” – from the Creative Single Photo Section.
Marie-Laure Vareilles – AVATAR’S MOUNTAIN PAINTER…
Ekatarina Frolova is the Winner of the The Patricia D. Richards Legacy Award with her portfolio “Young Cuba”.
The URBAN Press Award prize was won by Max Cavallari with his project Drowned Choice – the italian photographer took home also the title as “TPD Best Author”.
Awarded was also the selected author for the prize-exhibition at the Sartorio Museum Mauro Zorer with “JUNE 22, 1944 – THE CHILDREN’S MARCH”.
The winner of this second edition of URBAN Photo Arena, a section dedicated to young photography talents under 35, is the Indian photographer Subhran Karmakar with his photo “Leap of Faith“.
Subhran Karmakar – Leap of Faith
URBAN Photo Awards 2024 / Final Ranking
SEE PHOTOS| WINNER OVERALL | Single Photos | Sanchayan Chowdhury | Eid Journey |
| 1st place | Single Photos: STREETS | Sanchayan Chowdhury | Eid Journey |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: STREETS | Andrei Bercea - The.observationalist | She smokes the rain |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: STREETS | Len Bernstein | Boys playing football in snow |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: STREETS | Matthew DeSantis | Baseball in Bhutan |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: STREETS | Max Cavallari | Untitled |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: STREETS | Maude Bardet | Untitled |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: STREETS | Dejan Mijović | Fearless |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: STREETS | Marco Parenti | The date |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: STREETS | Michele Ginevra | Untitled |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: STREETS | Toshiki Yukawa | After The Snow |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: STREETS | Yousef Naser | Minya quarries |
| 1st place | Single Photos: PEOPLE | Antonio Mercadante | 3di3 |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: PEOPLE | Kishore Das | Existence |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: PEOPLE | Kyaw Zay Yar Lin | Fishing Together |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: PEOPLE | Ercin Erturk | Female soldier in a sunflower field |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: PEOPLE | Ahmed Joy | Daily workers in Bangladesh |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: PEOPLE | Chin Leong Teo | Vung Tau Fish 4 |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: PEOPLE | Joy Saha | Catch of the Day |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: PEOPLE | Mariana Basurto | Chameleon |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: PEOPLE | Olga Steinepreis | Brothers |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: PEOPLE | Salvatore Montemagno | The age of uncertainty N1 |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: PEOPLE | Vitaly Medvedev | Where the wind blows |
| 1st place | Single Photos: SPACES | Yevhen Kostiuk | P-opular & I-gnored |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: SPACES | Jenny Lam | Bookworm |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: SPACES | Joseph Ford | Waterpark, Egypt |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: SPACES | Simone Pastorini | Untitled |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: SPACES | Alexis Alexandris | Untitled |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: SPACES | Cuneyt Gumushaneli | Joy in the carpet field |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: SPACES | Eduard Revidovich | Stone & Mortar 6 |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: SPACES | Helmut Oberritter | Library |
| 1st place | Single Photos: CREATIVE | Maryam Sadat Ahmadi | Endless stairs |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: CREATIVE | Arman Kuzel | Center |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: CREATIVE | Marie-Laure Vareilles - Mailo | Avatar's Mountain Painter... |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: CREATIVE | Foteini Zaglara | Sortie de la réalité |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: CREATIVE | Sandra Cattaneo Adorno | Ten Years XIII |
| Honorable Mention | Single Photos: CREATIVE | Morag Forbes | Venice Sunset |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: CREATIVE | Alicia Mata | No seas negativo |
| Remarkable Reward | Single Photos: CREATIVE | René Cassio Scholz | Siena City Walk |
| WINNER | Projects & Portfolios | Krzysztof Bednarski | La Vida Lenta |
| Honorable Mention | Projects & Portfolios | Alessandro Ledda | The last charcoal burners |
| Honorable Mention | Projects & Portfolios | Christian Basetti | Break from oblivion |
| Honorable Mention | Projects & Portfolios | Valerio Geraci | American Eden |
| WINNER | URBAN Book Award | Maria Pansini | SEA, STEEL AND SORROW |
| Honorable Mention | URBAN Book Award | Joseph Patronite | Americana |
| Honorable Mention | URBAN Book Award | Tony Le | Urbanism |
| WINNER | URBAN Zine Award | Nadia Marmondi | Divenire |
| Jury’s Choice | URBAN Zine Award | Anatoly Suzdaltsev | On Orbite – Visual diary |
| Jury’s Choice | URBAN Zine Award | Carola Cunzolo | Mr. White |
| WINNER | URBAN Press Award | Max Cavallari | Drowned Choice |
| WINNER | URBAN Photo Arena | Subhran Karmakar | Leap of Faith |
| WINNER | "Trieste Museums" Special Prize | Mauro Zorer | JUNE 22, 1944 – THE CHILDREN’S MARCH |
| WINNER | The Patricia D. Richards Legacy Award | Ekatarina Frolova | Young Cuba |
| WINNER | Artistic Sensitivity Award | Marie-Laure Vareilles - Mailo | Avatar's Mountain Painter... |
| WINNER | TPD Best Author | Max Cavallari | Drowned Choice |
URBAN Photo Awards 2024 is promoted by dotART and Exhibit Around APS associations with the precious support of partners, institutions and friends whom we thank below. We thank the Municipality of Trieste for the special exhibition-prize “Premio Musei Civici” at the Sartorio Museum.
