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Global Peace Photo Award 2021 – Call for Entries

Send us your entry before 23 May 2021 and show us: What does peace look like?

Entry is free of charge.
Click here to register and submit your work.
Click here to read the terms and frequently asked questions.

Prizes:
The Peace Image of the Year will be honoured with a cash price of € 10,000.
It will be shown for one year in the Austrian Parliament and will be included in the permanent art collection of the Austrian Parliament.

The five best works of the Global Peace Photo Award will be honoured with the Alfred Fried Peace Medal, the photographers will be invited to attend the award ceremony in Vienna on 21 September 2021, with travel expenses and accommodation paid.

We also call for entries to the Children’s Peace Image of the Year.

Take part if you are 14 years or younger!
Click here to register and submit your work.

The honorary chair for the Children’s Peace Image of the Year is Waris Dirie, a committed human rights activist. The Award is supported by the German Youth Photography Award.

The Children’s Peace Image of the Year will be honoured with the Alfred Fried Peace Medal and a cash price of € 1,000 sponsored by the Vienna Insurance Group. The winner and his or her parents are invited to the award ceremony in Vienna. If a photo group wins, one representative member of the group and his or her parents are invited to the ceremony with travel expenses and accommodation paid.

A great opportunity for any photographer to gain worldwide attention

Works of the Alfred Fried Photography Award have been exhibited at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, at the Geneva Peace Week, at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura in Rome and the Maison du Jeune Citoyen at Schilitgheim. Moreover, the shortlisted images, plus 320 other remarkable works, have been put together in a 50-minute animation, shown 7 times a day on the DIGI-WALL at Vienna’s main railway station, which can be seen by 18 000 travellers a day. The winners of the Alfred Fried Photography Award 2019 are currently shown on 100 m² large-format billboards along the so called Südost-Tangente in Vienna passed by 180 000 cars per day.

The participants of the Global Peace Photo Award 2021 can look forward to a series of exhibitions: The winning pictures and a best-of the-shortlist will be shown at the Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo, the largest outdoor photo festival in Europe, with over 300 000 visitors.

Press contact
Lois Lammerhuber
Edition Lammerhuber
T +43 699 135 83 989
lois.lammerhuber@friedaward.com

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