URBAN 2018 Award Ceremony at Trieste Photo Days festival

Saturday October 27th, 2018 at 8 PM, the Award Ceremony of URBAN 2018 Photo Awards will take place at the “Bobi Bazlen” hall of Palazzo Gopcevich in Trieste, Italy [see map], during Trieste Photo Days festival.

In the presence of Jury President Tatsuo Suzuki, guest of honor of the festival together with the juror Tadashi Onishi, the final podium will be unveiled and the medals will be awarded to the Winner Overall, to the ranked photographers for each category and to the honorable mentions. Juror Elena Uljančić-Vekić will also award the three selected portfolios for an exhibition at the Porec Museum last August.

URBAN 2018 Award Ceremony will represent the main event of the festival’s opening weekend. At this link you can see the updated calendar.

Winning photos and first portfolio exhibition will instead take place at the Photoscaglia studio (former Lux Art Gallery, via Rittmeyer 7/A, Trieste, Italy). Opening hours:

• Saturday October 27th, 2018. 10-13 / 14-17
• Sunday October 28th, 2018. 10-13
• Until November 10th , 2018. Monday-Friday 09-13 / 15-19

Winners will share a prize pool of over € 7,000, in addition to a series of prizes offered by the partners of the contest. The contest, which started on 14 February and ended on 17 June, saw 4,460 photos and 272 portfolios for 1,103 participants from all over the world.

Single Pictures (in alphabetical order)

• Pedro Luis Ajuriaguerra Saiz (Spain) – “Walking To The Future City”
• Massimo Alfano (Italy) – “Il Parcheggio Delle Biciclette”
• Sergio Aresi (Italy) – “Antibes Le Nomade”
• Nicola Bertellotti (Italy) – “The Short 20th Century”
• Gianni Boradori (Italy) – “Posizioni Privilegiate”
• Nik Brezginov (Russia) – “Grindy”
• Viraj Bunnag (Thailand) – “Last Rays Of Warmth”
• Dimitri Bourriau (France) – “Ufo Soviet”
• Guido Caltabiano (Italy) – “Faith Vs Google”
• Roberto Corinaldesi (Italy) – “Bakuman (Al Centro Culturale Heydar Aliyev, Baku)”
• Mauro De Bettio (Italy) – “Chasing Spirits”
• Roy Deba Prasad (India) – “Innovative Way Of Boarding”
• Samuel Dossi (Italy) – “Il Fumatore Incallito”
• Giulio Fabbri (Italy) – “Hotel Paradise”
• Christiaan Hart (Hong Kong) – “Flyby”
• Ranu Jain (United Arab Emirates) – “A Moment Inside A Museum”
• Md Enamul Kabir (Bangladesh) – “Untitled”
• Olgierd Kajak (Switzerland) – “Where Is The Truth?”
• Tristan Lavender (Netherlands) – “The Red Bus”
• Ludovic Le Guyader (France) – “Water comes from below”
• Sébastien Leban (France) – “Pourim Banquet In Jerusalem”
• Angiolo Manetti (Italy) – “Columns”
• Giuliano Mazzanti (Italy) – “Red Tie”
• Orlando Morici (Italy) – “Walking On Words”
• Riccardo Pesaresi (Italy) – “Suorine”
• Sergio Redolfi (Italy) – “Desire For Freedom”
• Daniele Stefanizzi (Italy) – “Ginza Crossing”
• Rudolf Sulgan (USA) – “Poetry In Motion”
• Marco Tagliarino (Italy) – “Red Dimension”
• Antonio Tartaglia (Italy) – “Run Like Hell”
• Qui Thinh Tran (Vietnam) – “Back To Home”
• Viet Van Tran (Vietnam) – “Playing”
• Mathias Wasik (USA) – “Yellow Cape”
• Rebecca Wiltshire (Australia) – “Sculptures By The Sea, Perth 2018”
• Andrea Zachrau (Germany) – “Wolf In The City”
• Lukasz Zietara (Poland) – “3 Hearts”

Projects & Portfolios

• 1 – Alain Schroeder (Belgium) – “Brick Prison”
• 2 – Giedo Van Der Zwan (Netherlands) – “Pier To Pier”
• 3 – Sara Munari (Italy) – “Be The Bee Body Be Boom, Est East (Bidibibodibibu)”
• Honorable Mention – Sevil Alkan (Turkey) – “Stray Dog”
• Honorable Mention – Stefano Lista (Italy) – “On Board”
• Honorable Mention – Sandro Di Camillo (Italy) – “Via Rupta”

“Poreč Museum” Award

• Mitja Kobal (Slovenia) – “Gentle Appearances In Tokyo Metropolis”
• Sevil Alkan (Turckey) “Stray Dog”
• Paolo Maggi (Italia) – “Urban Faces and Fragments”