The question “What does peace look like?” is answered by the winning photographs of the Global Peace Photo Award on display at Madách Imre Square in Budapest. The competition honors photographers who, through their images, capture efforts toward a peaceful world as well as the search for beauty and goodness in life.
As part of the Festival La Gacilly–Baden Photo, the exhibition titled “What does Peace look like?” has already been shown in Paris, Bergen, Rome, Münster, Ragusa, Sharjah, Celje, Berlin, and Bratislava — and is now hosted in Budapest. The photo competition has been running for 13 years. From around 22,000 submissions from up to 160 countries, the jury selects the winning images.
The photographs presented in this exhibition were curated from the submissions to the Global Peace Photo Award. Among the featured artists are Anhua Collective, Nicolas Asfouri, Jonathan Bachman, Anastasiya Bolshakova, Arthur Bondar, Stefan Boness, Anna Boyiazis, Renée Byer, Barbare Chikviladze, Maryam Firuzi, Emil Gataullin, Mohammad Golchin, Kakhaber Kalichava, Badru Sultan Katumba, Dune Laboile, Nora Lorek, Catalina Martin-Chico, Alex Masi, Marinka Masséus, and many more.
“This exhibition is not only beautiful but also educational. Beyond transporting us to distant worlds and presenting individual destinies in masterfully composed photographs - where we are not merely curious about what lies beyond the frame - the collection as a whole teaches us that all people on Earth are connected, and that it is worth learning from one another in the pursuit of individual happiness.” With these words, András Török, founding director of the Mai Manó House and manager of the Fortepan community photo archive, opened and praised the exhibition.
Afterwards, Lois Lammerhuber, who established and organizes the award together with his wife Silvia Lammerhuber and Werner Sobotka, President of the Photographic Society (PHG), emphasized that “Peace is not the absence of war, but something I would call a successful life. Each year, the submitted photographs inspire us anew with their creativity and passion, encouraging us to resolutely stand up for goodness and peace in the world.”
The Global Peace Photo Award is organized by Edition Lammerhuber in close cooperation with the Austrian Parliament, UNESCO, UNICEF Austria, the Association of Parliamentary Journalists, the International Press Institute (IPI), World Press Photo Foundation, POY LATAM, LensCulture, APA – Austria Press Agency, the German Photographic Society (DGPh), the Photographic Society (PHG), and the Vienna Insurance Group.
The exhibition can be visited until October 12, 2025 at Madách Imre Square in Budapest.