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 is awarded by Edition Lammerhuber and the Photographische Gesellschaft, (PHG). Edition Lammerhuber is an Austrian publisher, based in Baden near Vienna, dedicated to photography and to the interpretation of science and art. The Photographische Gesellschaft, (PHG), founded in Vienna in 1861, is the longest-standing photographic society in the German-speaking countries and the second-oldest in the world. It was founded on 22 March 1861 by Anton Georg Martin at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna
Offered Benefits
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.
Application Process
Send us your entry and show us: What does peace look like?
Entry is free of charge.
Submit your work!
Or, if you are 14 years or younger:
Submit your work to the Children’s Peace Image of the Year!
