We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2024 URBAN Photo Awards, unveiled live during the electrifying ceremony on Saturday, 26 October, at the Museo Revoltella Auditorium. This highly anticipated evening, part of the eleventh edition of the international Trieste Photo Days Festival, celebrated outstanding photographers whose work continues to inspire and challenge our view of urban life.

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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.

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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.

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The winner of the Projects & Portfolios section is Polish photographer Krzysztof Bednarski with “La Vida Lenta”, selected by Adam Pretty.

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Paul Gadd, designated juror of the URBAN Book Award section, has awarded STEEL, SEA AND SORROW by italian photographer Maria Pansini.

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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 Portfoliosection.

The first edition of the URBAN Zine Award was given to italian Nadia Marmondi with “Divenire” , selected by Federica Berzioli.

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The Artistic Sensitivity award went to Marie-Laure Vareilles and “AVATAR’S MOUNTAIN PAINTER…” – from the Creative Single Photo Section.

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Ekatarina Frolova is the Winner of the The Patricia D. Richards Legacy Award with her portfolio “Young Cuba”.

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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”.

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Awarded was also the selected author for the prize-exhibition at the Sartorio Museum Mauro Zorer with “JUNE 22, 1944 – THE CHILDREN’S MARCH”.

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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“.

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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.

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A special Thank to all our Partners

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Main Partners

Trieste Photo Days

CRAF – Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia

Piero Pittini Foundation

Unicusano Trieste

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Technical Partners

Friuli Innovazione

Cracow School of Creative Photography

Videndum Media Solutions

Manfrotto

Stroppa

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Press Partners

The Eye of Photography
FotoCult
Il Fotografo
ArtDoc
OPENeye

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Media Partners

Cuartoscuro

Archdaily

BetterPhotography

Tagree

Quo Magazine

Pictures Magazine

Daylight

Street Photography Magazine

F-Stop Magazine

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And to all the Members of the 2024 Jury

Harry Gruyaert, Adam Pretty, Paul Gadd, Federica Berzioli, Giorgio Celiberti, Denis Curti, Arnaud Montagard, Arthur Dayras, Atif Saeed, Claudia Colecchia, David Christopher Lee, Ekaterina Belinskaya, Emanuele Costanzo, Francesco Aglieri Rinella, GMB Akash, Iliana Cepero, Jerzy Gaweł, Joerg Nicht, Martin Stranka, Massimo Siragusa, Matjaž Tančič, Merel Galestian, Michael Ernest Sweet, Michael Kirchoff, Michela Messina, Olivier Valsecchi, Philippe Litzler, Rathika Ramasamy, Stefano Ambroset and Sucheta Das.