Peace Image of the Year 2024

The Global Peace Photo Award aims to recognise images that convey a quest for beauty and goodness in our lives, and capture human efforts towards a better world. Inspired by Nobel Peace Prize laureates Alfred Fried and Tobias Asser, the contest is organised by Edition Lammerhuber in collaboration with several high-calibre partners, including UNESCO, the International Press Institute (IPI) and the World Press Photo Foundation. The 2024 edition of the award is co-sponsored by Leica Camera Austria. 

A jury of more than thirty industry experts will select three winners in the contest’s Stories category, and one best entry in the Single Image category. Each category winner stands to receive a monetary prize as well as an expenses-paid invitation to the award ceremony in Vienna, where they will be honoured with the Alfred Fried Peace Medal. Furthermore, all submitted images have the chance to be featured in international exhibitions.

Out of these four best entries, the jury will choose the Peace Image of the Year. In 2023, the prestigious 10,000-euro award went to South Korean photographer Elrea Song for an image from her Story Combing Peace. Together with her family – including her young nieces –  the artist (b. 1984) frequently sets out to collect flotsam waste on the beaches of her home city of Daejeon. Her winning picture shows two joyous children amidst an imaginative sculpture created with manmade objects retrieved from the sea: a poignant visualisation of the delicate relationship between humans and the environment, as well as a show of solidarity with people and the natural world. 
Submissions for the 2024 edition of the Global Peace Photo Award are accepted until 19 May 2024. Multiple entries can be made in each category – participation is free of charge. 

The contest also offers a Children’s Peace Image of the Year category for participants up to the age of 14. 

For further details and rules of participation please visit https://globalpeacephotoaward.org