On the road to Trieste Photo Days 2025, Poste Italiane hosts the exhibition URBAN Unveils the City and its Secrets (URBAN Svela la Città e i suoi Segreti) in the magnificent Palazzo delle Poste Centrali in Trieste.
The exhibition will run during the days of the Barcolana, creating a narrative that unites the intensity of the city with the allure of the sea.
URBAN Unveils the City and its Secrets
Palazzo delle Poste Centrali
Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 1, 34132 Trieste TS
From September 13 to October 11, 2025
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8:20 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, 8:20 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Organized in collaboration with Poste Italiane and the Postal and Telegraph Museum of Central Europe, the exhibition precedes the events of the Trieste Photo Days festival, taking place from October 23 to 26, 2025.
URBAN Unveils the City and its Secrets offers a visual reflection on urban identity and its subtler details. The exhibition features a selection of 115 photographs from the 16th edition of the URBAN Photo Awards, spanning urban photography and street photography with diverse perspectives and artistic languages.
The images capture hidden corners of city life, striking contrasts, and the beauty of everyday experiences, conveying with extraordinary sensitivity the ingenuity, poetry, and art that animate urban life. Just as Poste Italiane accompanies people in their daily lives, the exhibition becomes a mirror of the stories, gazes, and souls that inhabit cities.
Shot on the road in metropolises and towns across the globe, these images celebrate the complexity and beauty of urban life, captured forever in the immediate power of photography.
On view
Proects by:
- Barrold (GB), TV Eye
- CamilleM (FR), 3 seconds portraits serie
- Davide Pettarini (IT), Piante matte – Crazy plants
- Frédéric Muller (CH), Skyscrapers in Zurich
- Giorgio Negro (CH), La Huaca
- Heiko Hansen (DE), Jerewan Kond Poor Moments
- Jeannette Müller (IT), Cats
- Luc Pauwels (BE), Vibrant Streets: Curating the Everyday
- Sandro Lombardo (IT), Japan portrait
Single photos by:
Adriana Gagliardi (IT), Alex (AF), Alex Palomo (ES), Alexandra Fetisova-Trichet (RU), Ana P. Brun (ES), Ascor (CO), Claudio Zanirato (IT), Daniela Cerchiari (IT), Farkas Szilvia (HU), Harry Giglio (US), Helmut Oberritter (DE), Jimmy Veronese (ES), Paola Bet (IT), Paolo Montevecchi (IT), Silvia Morigi (IT), Simon Goldstein (GB), Simone Lotteria (IT), Umberto Stirpe (IT), Valeria Mutinelli (IT), Walter Bastiani (IT).
