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Extended deadline for the Alfred Fried Photography Award!
Enter your work!We invite you to enter your images to the Alfred Fried Photography Award. The top five listed photographers will be awarded the Alfred Fried Photography Award Medal. The Peace Image of the Year will receive
€ 10,000.Are you 14 years or younger? Enter your photos to the Children Peace Image of the Year! (click for infos) The Children Peace Image of the Year will receive
€ 1,000.All winners will be invited to Vienna to the award ceremony at the Austrian Parliament on 14 September 2017.
The new deadline for the Children Peace Image of the Year is 30 June 2017!
Grown-up photographers please note:Extended deadline for the Alfred Fried Photography Award!The extended deadline for the Alfred Fried Photography Award is 11 June 2017.
Preamble
Photography captures the sentiment of a moment, reflecting the actual world in a picture. The Alfred Fried Photography Award aims to present human efforts to live together in peace 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.
Named after
Alfred Hermann Fried (* 11 November 1864, Vienna; † 4 May 1921, Vienna) was an Austrian pacifist and author. As founder of the journal Die Waffen nieder! (Lay down your arms!) and other peace activities, Fried received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911, together with Tobias Asser, organizer of the first International The Hague Peace Conference and instigator of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Awarded by
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.
Edition Lammerhuber is an Austrian publisher, based in Baden near Vienna, dedicated to photography and to the interpretation of science and art.
Partners
The Alfred Fried Photography Award will be organized in partnership with UNESCO, the Austrian Parliament, the Austrian Parliamentary Reporting Association, the International Press Institute (IPI) and the German Youth Photography Award.
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