Submissions came from 144 countries, most of them from India followed by USA, China, Italy and Germany. The international jury created a shortlist of 22 entries in the story category, 25 entries in the single images category and 21 entries in the children’s category. The winners are included in the shortlist. They will be announced at the award ceremony.
The shortlists are in alphabetical order.
Shortlist of the Global Peace Photo Award 2026 – Stories
An Underground Tent
Ramadan Elagha, Palestine
Be rare, be real, and don't be sorry
Shang HuaGe, China
Beneath the Heart-Shaped Mountain
Shazia Khan, Denmark
Driven
Rima Maroun, Lebanon
Festa do Império Kalunga
Gustavo Minas, Brazil
Free Clinic in the Square
Lin Lin, China
Hamburg
Dmitrij Leltschuk, Germany
Il Mare in Mezzo (The Sea In Between)
Antonio Denti, Italy
Into The Light
Minh Nhon, Viet Nam
Kibera Nutcracker - From Slum to World stage
Daniel Kempf-Seifried, Germany
Movement as Resistance
Ali Hamarna, Palestine
New Makers
Sarfo Emmanuel, Ghana
O R I G I O
Milena Schilling, Germany
Reclaiming the Ocean
Tommy Trenchard, South Africa
Sisterhood on Wheels
Chantal Pinzi, Germany
The Flying Doctors of Lesotho
Tommy Trenchard, South Africa
The Last Butterflies
Valentina Sinis, Italy
The Shape of Time
Lucia Alonso Garrido, Portugal
The traveling Peace Circus
Noa Perez, Israel
The World by Touch
Aleksandra Kossowska, Poland
Trancendence
Julia Forrest, USA
Wings of Childhood and Peace
Mahmoud Abu Hamda, Palestine
Shortlist of the Global Peace Photo Award 2026 – Single Images
Amna and her home town in Darfur
Ala Kheir, Sudan
Bound
Roberto Corinaldesi, Italy
Football World United
Samuel Zuder, Germany
Freediving
Leonie Buchegger, Austria
Happy parade!
Helge Skodvin, Norway
Innerland: Birth
Synchrotania, Ukraine
Land they call Home
Sandeep Rasal, India
Link
Agostiño Iglesias, Spain
Madre herida, madre viva
Adriana Muñoz, Mexico
Messages of Peace
Zienab Adel, Egypt
Mixing of Times
Maria Bratan, Moldova
Planting Mangrove Seedlings
Harjan Pratama, Indonesia
Resilience of Comunication
Hamir Da Silva, Mozambique
Snow Mountain Prayers
Liu Yu, China
Sonnet of the Fiery Tide
Ruby Okoro, Nigeria
The Climate Talk
Mohammad Rakibul Hasan, Bangladesh
The Cut
Silvia Alessi, Italy
The Desire of Peace
Brunno Kawagoe, Brazil
The traveling Peace Circus
Noa Perez, Israel
The Weight of Tenderness
Yuri Bakun, Ukraine
The Young Chicken Breeder - Night
Claudia Grünig, Germany
Watching Snowflakes
Emiliano Joanes, Canada
Weightless Morning
Thibault Gerbaldi, France
Wheels of Freedom
Pinu Rahman, Bangladesh
When Knowledge Waits for Connection
Soumayan Biswas, India
Shortlist of the Children’s Peace Image of the Year 2026
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Amelija Juškytė, Lithuania
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Donatas Apavicius, Lithuania
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Julia Tabor, Poland
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Sesilia Shainidze, Georgia
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Una Grašarević, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A Child's World of Peace
Ojas Solanki, India
Children of Peace
Savithya Rajapakse, Sri Lanka
Faces of Peace
Zoe Wacker, USA
I now have a little brother
Hachi Hiraoka, Japan
My Brother with my Kitty
Elliott Kent, Viet Nam
My fav clicks
Nimrat Kaur Mamman, India
My Life - Peace
Keira Weitz, New Zealand
Peaceful Lives
Pang Mu'En, China
Silent Paths to Peace
Rea Balotia, India
Smile of Peace
Savithya Rajapakse, Sri Lanka
The Arroyabe Kids
Noah Arroyabe, USA
The Heart of Peace
Ruotong Yang, China
The peace of flight
Davi Monteiro, Brazil
True Moments of Father
Ibrahim Filali Zehri, Morocco
Unspoken Peace
Zun Moe Sett Ye Myint, Myanmar
Where fire becomes peace
Manuk Hofmann, Germany