Global Peace Photo Award 2025 (€11,000 in cash prizes) Deadline: 18 May, 2025

Applications for the Global Peace Photo Award 2025 are now open. The Global Peace Photo Award recognizes and promotes photographers from all over the world whose pictures capture human efforts towards a peaceful world and the quest for beauty and goodness in our lives. The award goes to those photographs that best express the idea that our future lies in peaceful coexistence.

Inner peace, peaceful coexistence, peace within a community, peace between nations, international policy of peace – what do we associate with all this? As many important photography awards focus on the conflicts and crises, the wars and catastrophes on our planet, professional awards do not normally highlight what other things humans are capable of. The Global Peace Photo Award, launched in 2013 as the Alfred Fried Photography Award, fills this gap: it shows the various facets of peacefulness. It completes the image of humans by adding their good sides. It honours the pictures which tell about successes rather than failures; of empathy rather than hatred; of things worth preserving rather than destruction; of encouragement rather than agony; and of the human right to beauty.

Prizes

There will be a total of €11,000 in cash prizes to be won in all 6 categories!

• The Peace Image of the Year will be honoured with a cash price of €7,000. It will be exhibited in the Austrian Parliament for one year and included in the permanent art collection of the Austrian Parliament.
• 3 winners in the Stories category will each receive €1,000
• 1 winner in the single picture category receives €1,000
• 1 Childen’s Peace Image of the Year receives €1,000

All winning works will be awarded the Alfred Fried Peace Medal and the photographers will be invited to the award ceremony in Vienna in September 2025, with travel expenses and accommodation covered. All submitted images have the chance to take part in international exhibitions.

Eligibility

• Open to all photographers from anywhere in the world.
• Digital submissions must be saved as .jpg, with more than 3000 pixels on the longest side. Images must not include any embedded marks, logos, names or borders.
• Photographs that are part of a reportage on a topic must not be manipulated in a way that changes the meaning of the picture. For other entries, they accept digitally edited images and photo montages if they serve to explore a theme creatively. All digitally edited images must make clear what has been done to them in the captions that accompany the images.

Deadline: 18 May, 2025

Application

Click here to submit your work or Submit your work to the Children’s Peace Image of the Year!

For more information, visit Global Peace Photo Award.