The Urban Photo Awards are back for 2021 with more stunning, beautiful, and magical photographs. There are many styles, compositions, and themes in this year's finalists. Almost everyone can find a photograph they will absolutely love or can relate to.
Photographers from all over the world have gathered for this competition. There are more than 200 finalists for the jury to choose from. Urban photography is divided into four main categories: streets, people, spaces, and creativity. In this article, we picked a few photos that we liked the most and we hope you will enjoy them too!
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Istanbul, Turkey By Forrest Walker
Heres what the Urban Photo Awards say on their website: "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."
Pop By Laura Zalenga
Untitled By Istvan Kerekes
"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."
Silhouttes And Reflections By Giancarlo Staubmann
Untitled By Оксана Сергеевна Зайцева
"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."
Untitled By Pau Kessel
Morning View In Situ Patenggang By Robert Lie
"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."
Blonde By Ahmad Mohammad Taghi Shirazi
I feel for you, girl. As an adult, I moved into a new neighborhood with a church down the street. Sunday morning, there I am 5'8", blonde at a Filipino church. Felt like a giraffe in a pride of lions.
Central Park By Yuliy Vasilev
"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."
Sulky By Fatmademir
His Own World By Amir Arabshahi
Dre And Tom, 2019 By Joseph Ford
They clearly need to go back to 1955 to get their parents to fall in love, since they're fading away.
Timeless Courtesy By Sigrid Debusschere
Repel By Timo Lemmetti
Untitled By Marzena Hans
Poems For Sisters By Hardibudi
Friendship By Berlin Aydin
Urban Winter Recreation By Ludmila Stepnova
Invisible Jumpers By Joseph Ford
Reading Between The Lines By Ingrid Gielen
Jumping Time By Takrim Ahmed
Untitled By Pranab Basak
Just Some Lines And One Circle By Stefan Lauterbach
Rainbow Faces By Imon.photo
Cavallo Della Domenica By Giovanni Cassarà
Without Masks By Jana Estocinova
Ropewallker Without Sepectators By Navid Mofidi Ahmadi
Reimagined Vessel By Gautam Kamat Bambolkar
Red Air By Laura Santabarbara Scirocco
La Terra Silenziosa By Nicola Bertellotti
Face-Ade By Anna Devís And Daniel Rueda
Third Time Lucky? By David Cossini
The first time I was a fool. Never knew that love could be so cruel. It happened to me again.
Untitled By Giulio Cesare Grandi
Untitled By Waldemar Ostrowski
This is reminiscent of the photojournalism of the early 1960s. It's like something you might have seen in Life magazine.
