2nd Edition of the CitiesTobe Photo Award for Individuals

2nd Edition of the CitiesTobe Photo Award for Individuals


Nominations are now open for the 2nd Edition of the CitiesTobe Photo Award 2023.

The CitiesToBe Photo Award is an international urban photography contest organized and powered by the Barcelona-based consulting firm Anteverti, aimed at supporting creators who use the city as their main theme — inspiring new reflections on the challenges the urban world is facing nowadays, and helping us to better understand them.

If there’s something that defines the last century in the world, that is the progressive concentration of people in cities. Whether fleeing from war and conflict, pursuing a better future, or simply following the inertia of progress, cities have been giving shelter and birth to more and more people without restraint.

Today, the world is more urban than ever before, and this is increasing every year. As a result, cities have acquired a fundamental role in contemporary global reality.

The DNA of cities is composed of many exciting things, such as cultural diversity, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship… At the same time, cities are a manifestation of their world’s main challenges: according to UN Habitat, they consume 78 % of the world’s energy and produce more than 60 % of greenhouse gas emissions.

They are the place where social differences and segregation are most evident, and where cultural and identity conflicts converge. In short, cities are highly complex ecosystems comprising a multiplicity of layers and, most importantly, they are the canvas where