Global Peace Photo Award for for Professional & Amateur Photographers (€11,000 in Cash Prizes)

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Applications are now open for the Global Peace Photo Award 2025 . 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.

The Global Peace Photo Award (formerly the Alfred Fried Photography Award) is organized by Edition Lammerhuber in partnership with Photographische Gesellschaft (PHG), UNESCO, Austrian Parliament, Austrian Parliamentary Reporting Association, International Press Institute (IPI), World Press Photo Foundation, POY LATAM, LensCulture, APA – Austria Presse Agentur, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) e.V., UNICEF Austria and Vienna Insurance Group.

Global Peace Photography Award Benefits

There will be a total of €11,000 in cash prizes to be won!
The Peace Image of the Year is honoured with a cash prize of €6,000. 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. The pictures will be exhibited in the Austrian Parliament for one year.

All submitted images have the chance to take part in international exhibitions.

Eligibility Criteria

The Global Peace Photo Award is open to all photographers from anywhere in the world.

Judging criteria

The international jury of the Global Peace Photo Award will judge the photographs on artistic merit, originality, subject and style to select four winners.
The Peace Image of the Year will then be chosen by the jury from among the four winners.