Submissions came from 114 countries, most of them from India followed by Russia, USA, Germany, Iran, Italy and Great Britain. The international jury created a shortlist of 28 entries.
The shortlists are in alphabetical order.
Shortlist of the Global Peace Photo Award 2021
A Cry of Life in Gaza
Nicola Zolin, Italy
A Place to Feel Home
Nicola Zolin, Italy
And Now My Children Know
Leticia Valverdes, Brazil
AT OGHLAN
Mohsen Kaboli, Iran
Doctor To The Poor
Andreas Reeg, Germany
Extreme Pain - but Also Extreme Joy
Maggie Shannon, USA
Far Nearer (working title)
Jef Van den Bossche, Belgium
Free as a Bird
Fabrice Dimier, France
Harmony for After the War - Syria
Pablo Tosco, Syria
In Which Language Do We Dream?
Rich Wiles, Great Britain
Inclusion in Cameroon
Anne Ackermann, Germany
Life Between Home and Hell: Refugees in Camp Moria on Lesbos
Reto Klar, Germany
Meeting Sofie (Apr 2018 – 2020)
Snezhana von Büdingen, Germany
Moments of Peace
Geoffrey Haggray, USA
One and a Half Acres: Images from America's Decommissioned Minuteman Missile Silos
Nate Hofer, USA
Our Journey
Shabana Zahir, Afghanistan / Greece
PANDEMIC PIGEONS
Jasper Doest, Netherlands
Peace and Strength
Derrick Ofosu Boateng, Ghana
Puppet Theater Among the Rubble for Children in Idlib
Mouneb Taim, Syria
Rest in Peace, Semek
Mohd Nazri Sulaiman, Malaysia
Resurrection
Matjaz Krivic, Slovenia
Rooftop
Farzam Saleh, Iran
Second Wave
Celine Chariot, Belgium
Shine Heroes
Federico Estol Garcia, Bolivia
Testimony to Change
Johanna Maria Fritz, Germany
The Last Dance
Antonio Pellicano, Italy
The Long and Difficult Path of the Mauritanian National Women's Football Team
Lucas Barioulet, France
Unperson - Portraits of North Korean Defectors
Tim Franco, South Korea
Shortlist Children’s Peace Image of the Year 2021
A Dream in Reality
Elizaveta Chernyavskaya, Russia
A Mothers Grip
Jaime Clarke, Australia
And Now My Children Know
Lua Valveredes Stevens + Lowen Valveredes Stevens, Brasil
Cinderella
Ekaterina Buzhenko, Russia
Close to the Heart and Soul
Anastasya Bolshakova, Russia
Free Flying
Diego Barrera, Peru
From War to Peace
Agnese Sofia Lemmo, Italy
In der Lage sein, SCHÖNHEIT in einfachen Dingen zu erkennen
Sophia Senkina, Russia
Lap of Peace
Aadhyaa Aravind Shankar, India
Lovey-dovey devilishly disruptive
Bernice Clarissa Neda Sirait, Indonesia
Medusa Reloaded
Kiara Simanko, Germany
MY BROTHER
Philip Raschka, Germany
My Children's Peace Image Of The Year
Kinley Manges, USA
Peace
Anita Poleggi, Italy
Privacy
Daria Kocheryzhkina, Russia
Space Base
Kseniya Kiyashko, Russia
Specific Processing
Roman Kravchenko, Ukraine
The Anna’s handbag
Daria Kocheryzhkina, Russia
The evening
Johanna Pöhler, Germany
The Soul of the Russian Hinterland
Anastasya Bolshakova, Russia