Nayeem Siddiquee, Luca Meola, Nicolas St-Pierre and Joseph Ford won URBAN Photo Awards 2021

Bengali photographer Nayeem Siddiquee with the shot Somewhere under the red sky is the Winner Overall of URBAN Photo Awards 2021, chosen by president of the jury Bruce Gilden among the first ranked in the Streets, People, Spaces and Creative categories in the Single Photos section.

Bruce Gilden announced his choice in a video speech during the URBAN awards ceremony, Saturday 30 October at the Auditorium of the Museo Revoltella, as part of the Trieste Photo Days 2021 festival, in north-eastern Italy.

“It was tough to pick an overall winner”, Gilden said. “I have to admit I was overwhelmed by the red sky.”

Nayeem Siddiquee – Somewhere under the red sky

Winner of the Projects & Portfolios section was Luca Meola with Crackland. The project, focused on a problematic neighborhood in Sao Paulo in Brazil, was selected by Paolo Pellegrin, present in the room, who personally rewarded the author.

Francesco Cito instead presented the Canadian photographer Nicolas St-Pierre with the URBAN Book Awards trophy for the volume Where Have The Birds Gone?

“The work of Nicolas St-Pierre”, according to Cito, “is an intellectual fantasy conducted with mastery and a skilful photographic language. Good photography, engraved, well structured, and masterfully post produced.”

The English photographer Joseph Ford was crowned Best Author of this twelfth edition of the contest: a recognition for his very personal authorial creativity.

During his long video speech, Bruce Gilden also commented on the projects he had selected for Real people, the tribute book in his honor born from the Bruce Gilden Special Prize, from which a collective exhibition in Rome was taken at the Galleria Umberto Mastroianni of the Museums of San Salvatore in Lauro.

Gilden, chased by the art director of the festival Angelo Cucchetto and journalist Rebeka Legovic, proved to be a direct and honest president of the Jury, but above all a great professional and a true lover and connoisseur of photography.

Francesca Pompei, winner of the New Buildings Special Award, was also awarded: founder of Matrix4Design Andrea Boni presented her the trophy for the photo Sharada #04 and announced that the New Buidings award will be repeated in 2022 for the third year in a row. Harry Giglio was also awarded as the winner of the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival Special Prize with the shot Time Traveller.

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URBAN Photo Awards 2021 – Final Ranking

WINNER OVERALL

• WINNER OVERALL Nayeem Siddiquee – Somewhere under the red sky

SINGLE PICTURES – STREETS

• First Place Nayeem Siddiquee – Somewhere under the red sky
• Honorable Mention Md Enamul Kabir – The Last Train
• Honorable Mention José Luis Nieto – Subida Al Cielo
• Honorable Mention Szymon Lewinski – Untitled
• Remarkable Reward Rene Bernal – Young guns
• Remarkable Reward Maude Bardet – Untitled
• Remarkable Reward Paul Kessel – Untitled
• Remarkable Reward Giulio Cesare Grandi – Untitled
• Remarkable Reward Ludmila Stepnova – Urban winter recreation

SINGLE PICTURES – PEOPLE

• First Place Andrés Granollers – Chernobyl Beach
• Honorable Mention Giancarlo Staubmann – Self portrait
• Honorable Mention Berin Aydın – Friendship
• Remarkable Reward Takrim Ahmed – Jumping time
• Remarkable Reward Marzena Hans – Untitled
• Remarkable Reward Forrest Walker – Istanbul, Turkey
• Remarkable Reward Pietro Di Giambattista – Untitled
• Remarkable Reward Istvan Kerekes – Untitled
• Remarkable Reward Samuel Boivin – The Trocadero bathers

SINGLE PICTURES – SPACES

• First Place Giulio Casti – Detachment
• Honorable Mention John Twiname – Powerless
• Honorable Mention Marcelo Cugliari – Untitled
• Remarkable Reward Helmut Oberritter – Gare de Liege-Guillemins
• Remarkable Reward Angiolo Manetti – Roman lights

SINGLE PICTURES – CREATIVE

• First Place Amir Arabshahi – His own world
• Honorable Mention Marcel Van Balken – Runner
• Honorable Mention Laura Zalenga – Pop
• Honorable Mention Yuliy Vasilev – Central Park
• Honorable Mention Timo Lemmetti – Repel
• Honorable Mention Joseph Ford – Dre and Tom, 2019

PROJECTS & PORTFOLIO

• First Portfolio Luca Meola – Crackland
• Honorable Mention Selina Bressan – I carbonari di Serra San Bruno
• Honorable Mention Sittichai Maikupandin – Ordinary Place
• Honorable Mention Gali Tibbon – Journey to Jerusalem of Africa
• Honorable Mention Joseph Ford – Invisible Jumpers

URBAN BOOK AWARD

• Winner Nicolas St-Pierre – Where Have The Birds Gone?
• Honorable Mention Candy Lopesino – The Iberians
• Honorable Mention Gabriele Lopez – Subway Zen

BRUCE GILDEN SPECIAL PRIZE

• Winner Carlo Traini – Promenade
• Winner Fabrizio Spucches – Working Class Virus
• Winner Forrest Walker – Populous
• Winner Giedo Van Der Zwan – Pier To Pier
• Winner Maria Pansini – Saints, Thieves And Sailors
• Winner Maurizio Leonardi – Napoletani Di Partenope (Neapolitans Of Parthenope)
• Winner Paula Kajzar – See Me, Feel Me… Heal Emotional Transfer
• Winner Simon Johansson – The World Shadow
• Winner Stanley Robben – Craving
• Winner Ximena Hinzpeter – My Own People
• Honorable Mention Alessio Toce – Back Down North
• Honorable Mention Andrea Scirè – Everyday Heros
• Honorable Mention Gabriele Micalizzi – Malamilano
• Honorable Mention Giancarlo Zuccarone – Italian Easter Rituals
• Honorable Mention Jean-Pierre Baud – Urban Frontsides
• Honorable Mention Maude Bardet – Kaleidoscopy
• Honorable Mention Mike Perry – Ikigai

BEST AUTHOR

• BEST AUTHOR Joseph Ford

“NEW BUILDINGS” SPECIAL PRIZE (MATRIX4DESIGN)

• Winner Francesca Pompei – Sharada #4

“TRIESTE SCIENCE+FICTION FESTIVAL” SPECIAL PRIZE

• Winner Harry Giglio – Time Traveller

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We want to thank all the partners who contributed to the success of URBAN 2021 Photo Awards:

• The Regional Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture, for the invaluable support to our cultural activities
• The Municipality of Trieste, for the support to the Trieste Photo Days and the URBAN 2021 exhibition-prize at the Museo Sartorio
• Matrix4Design, with which we created the New Buildings award
• Triesce Science+Fiction Festival, with which we created the award dedicated to “science fiction photography”
• Fujifilm Italia, for giving away a camera
• Stroppa, for giving away his handcrafted shoulder straps
• School of Creative Photography in Krakow, for giving away a scholarship
• Vitec Imaging Solutions, for giving away Manfrotto tripods, Lowepro backpacks and JOBY mini tripods for smartphones.
• PhotographyCourse.net, for giving away courses and interviews
• Il Cigno GG Edizioni and the Study Center of Umberto Mastroianni’s work, for giving away an exhibition at the Museums of San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome
• The Poreč Museum, for giving away an exhibition
• Friuli Innovazione, which has been making URBAN medals and trophies for years