The Best 22 Photos Of 2023 According To The Urban Photo Awards

#1 People, Remarkable Award: Redwalk By Marcel Van Balken

#3 Creative, Honorable Mention: Horror Movies Story By Hardibudi

#5 People, Honorable Mention: The Right To Know By Roberta Vagliani

#7 Civic Museum Sartorio In Trieste, Special Prize: Tempra By Martina D’Agresta

A feminine noun with a double meaning: a heat treatment of metals aimed at improving its properties strength and bending mechanics or a set of psychic and spiritual qualities of an individual with a marked connotation of solidity and vigor.

#9 Street, 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?

#11 Street, Honorable Mention: Spectacular Noise By Alessandro Deluigi

Rimini, Italia. Un ragazzino, seduto in cima ad uno scivolo, si era tappato le orecchie al rumore assordante delle spettacolari Frecce Tricolori Italiane.

#13 People, Remarkable Award: Piotr Kamiński

#15 Spaces, Honorable Mention: Blue On The Beach By Angius

#17 Creative, Remarkable Reward: Runner - Labyrinth By Jozef Danyi

Runner-Labyrinth It's a runner's story. It's a game of light and black and white. A small runner in the middle of a large scenery looking for an exit from the labyrinth. The labyrinth is made up of parts of the buildings in the town of Bruntál, where I live. We wish her good luck... Created 2022.

#19 Projects & Portfolios, Honorable Mention: Turn Round By Tomasz Liboska

Turn Round is a long-term project about Upper Silesia, the largest industrial region in Poland. Intensive industrial development of Upper Silesia began in the 18th century, following in the footsteps of the industrial revolution that transformed Europe. The vast reserves of black coal provided jobs and income to the region. The traditional economy—based mainly on agriculture—slowly declined. Over time, Upper Silesia became a land of coal mines and steel plants. Soon, cities expanded and the Upper Silesian agglomeration comprising over a dozen of towns was formed. After World War II, during the communist era, the region turned into a local El Dorado—a land of mineral riches. In particular, heavy industry was the lifeblood of the communist regime and was seen as an icon of the country’s modernization. Upper Silesia witnessed a vast influx of people migrating from all over Poland. Tens of thousands of people were hoping for work and better lives here. Alas, the socialist economy turned out to be a hidden time bomb for the region. After the great Solidarity movement revolution, when Poland joined the capitalist market economy, it was Upper Silesia that suffered the harshest consequences. Many factories shut down, and people were left without jobs or prospects. The smoking chimneys quickly disappeared from the horizon, and with them, many residents. The cities steadily emptied; some people returned to their hometowns, while younger people migrated to other countries in Europe. Today, the region still exists as the industrial center of our country yet it is also searching intensely for a new identity. Dynamic socioeconomic changes are giving Upper Silesia a new character. And yet not everybody benefits equally from these changes. If you turn around for a moment, you can still see the past prowling right behind you. Turn Round is the project, which, in 100% of time, was carried out on the bike. I like to cycle around, discover little paths and cul-de-sacs. There is no planned strategy. I am riding my bike wherever I feel like at a time. Many photos are made when I cycle to or from work. This is how I usually find my subjects. Some of them I have known for a long time, I like to go back to them. Other meetings are more incidental. I feel quite at ease approaching people and try to make good use of it. I initiate conversations, look for contact, encourage interaction.

#21 Streets, Remarkable Reward: And Then The Winter Came By Pierpaolo Mittica

The only light in a shop with a power generator during a blackout in Kyiv. After almost a year of war the situation in Ukraine is dramatic, Russia in recent months has started to strike power stations to put the population in the dark and cold during the harsh Ukrainian winter. More than half of the population is currently living without electricity, water and heating, particularly difficult is the situation in the capital Kyiv and its suburbs destroyed in the first months of the war.