Here are the 30 incredible winning photos of the Urban Photo Awards 2023. This international photo contest dedicated to young talents. The prizes announced in different categories like Single Pictures, Projects & Portfolios, Creative, Spaces, Urban Book Award, and Special Prizes.
URBAN International Photo Awards is a worldwide photo contest that has come to its 13th edition. URBAN looks for talent and quality both among professional and amateur photographers, offering them an international platform from which to get noticed.
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Single Picture Winners
#1. Street: 1st Place Winner – Tough Life by Andres Ramos Palacios
The life of a tourist is not always easy. Imagine arriving in Hanoi with jet lag and the next day, early in the morning, taking a three-hour bus to Halong Bay. Once there, you stand in a long queue for the boat and spend the day cruising among majestic rock formations, exploring caves that evoke the Earth’s prehistory and bathing peacefully on dreamy beaches. After lunch (dessert included), who wouldn’t feel the need for a nap on deck to escape for a while from so much beauty?
#2. Street: Honorable Mention – Sakulchai Sikitikul
#3. Street: Honorable Mention – Alone by Jasper Tejano
#4. Street: Honorable Mention – Multicolor by Charles Chojnacki
#5. Street: Honorable Mention – Spectacular Noise by Alessandro Deluigi
#6. Street: Honorable Mention – Risky Train Journey by Jubair Ahmed Arnob
#7. Street: Honorable Mention – Tokyo Metro Ticket Booth by Argus Paul Estabrook
#8. People: 1st Place Winner – Going To Save Themselves From The Abnormal Heat by Natalya Saprunova
There is a peak of heat on the Kola Peninsula behind the polar circle for the month of June. With +30°C, it is 18°C above maximum averages which has been kept for 10 days. Young girls go to bathe in a stream near the family country house in Lovozero.Being part of the last indigenous of Europe, the Saami of Russia lost their nomadic autonomy with the rise of Soviet power. Reindeer herders in the tundra on the Kola Peninsula, the Saami were forced to live in apartment buildings in Lovozero village, considered as a reserve. Settled to work in kolkhozes, the saami language and the traditional costume were prohibited. Today, there are 1500 saami people, and some 200 speak the language, most of them are elderly. Proud of their traditions, they strive to preserve their culture while adapting to modernity and global warming in the Arctic region.
#9. People: Honorable Mention – The Right To Know by Roberta Vagliani
#10. People: Honorable Mention – Diving by Maxim Korotchenko
#11. People: Honorable Mention – Redwalk by Marcel Van Balken
#12. People: Honorable Mention – The Place Of The Solitaires by Diana Sosnowska
#13. People: Honorable Mention – Nunzia, 96, At Her Home In Garfagnana, Italy by Fred Borghesi
#14. People: Honorable Mention – Nunset by Daniela Calò
#15. Spaces: 1st Place Winner – Ortona by Graziano Panfili
#16. Spaces: Honorable Mention – Blue On The Beach by Angius
#17. Spaces: Honorable Mention by Alex
#18. Spaces: Honorable Mention – ‘desert Rose’ Doha(qatar) – Jean Nouvel by Oscar Rialubin
#19. Projects & Portfolios: 1st Place Winner – The Post-industrial Rust Belt by Borowiec Andrew
For almost four decades I’ve photographed the social landscape of the Rust Belt, America’s vast industrial heartland, which extends from upstate New York to the shores of Lake Michigan in the west and into Appalachia south of the Ohio River, and which has been in steady decline since the 1980s. Houses have disintegrated, entire blocks of downtowns have been boarded up, and factories have been dismantled. People accustomed to a life of hard work have lost their jobs, their homes, and their place in the world.
#20. Projects & Portfolios: Honorable Mention – Turn Round by Tomasz Liboska
#21. Projects & Portfolios: Honorable Mention – In Visible Light by Sam Ferris
#22. Projects & Portfolios: Honorable Mention – The Shadows Of The Imagination by Anna Biret
#23. URBAN Press Award – Parisian Night Stories by Krzysztof Bednarski
#24. URBAN Photo Arena – Becoming an Adult by Romain Miot
#25. Poreč Museum: Special Prize – Francesco Aglieri Rinella
#26 Creative: 1st Place Winner – The False Illution by Andre Boto
Pollution is a real problem that affects us all. There are often attempts to camouflage or minimize this problem. The big manufacturing companies and the powers try to hide a problem that is real and brings sequels, creating the illusion that it is a distant problem, but in fact we are facing it already today and we leave with a great disadvantage to solve it at this moment.
#27 Creative: Honorable Mention – Complete Route by Ali Zolghadri
#28 Creative: Honorable Mention – Random Arrangement by Valentina D’alia
#29 Creative: Honorable Mention – Runner – Labyrinth by Jozef Danyi
#30 Creative: Honorable Mention – La Défense by Vincenzo Migliorati
