Budapest, 13 October 2025. As part of the La Gacilly-Baden Photo 2025 festival, the exhibition ‘What does Peace look like?’ delighted a wide audience at Madách Imre Tér in the heart of Budapest from 23 September to 12 October 2025. A total of 45,903 visitors took the opportunity to experience the impressive works of photographers from all over the world, whose pictures deal with the themes of peace, humanity and hope. A tribute to the power of images of a successful life in peace.
The Global Peace Photo Award, presented annually to outstanding photographic works, honours visual narratives that focus on courage, compassion and the search for peaceful solutions. The exhibition in Budapest presented a ‘best of’ selection of works by the award winners since the award was established in 2013.
‘The strong response shows how great the need for images of peace is – especially at a time of great global tension,’ emphasises Lois Lammerhuber, who founded the award together with his wife Silvia Lammerhuber and Werner Sobotka, President of the Photographic Society (PHG), and has organised it since its inception.
‘Photography has the unique ability to build bridges between people and cultures,’ adds Hartwig Löger, CEO of the Vienna Insurance Group, which has supported the Global Peace Photo Award since its inception – and has been its main sponsor since 2022. ‘As the largest insurance group in Central and Eastern Europe, peace is a topic of particular importance to us. People and businesses need a peaceful environment in order to flourish. We are delighted that the valuable message of the exhibition has now reached Budapest.’
Madách Imre Square, one of Budapest’s liveliest squares, provided the ideal setting for the exhibition with its open, urban atmosphere.
The organisers of the Global Peace Photo Award were delighted with the exhibition’s great success and announced that they would continue the format in other European cities in the coming years.
The Global Peace Photo Award is organized by Edition Lammerhuber in partnership with Photographische Gesellschaft (PHG), UNESCO, Austrian Parliament, Austrian Parliamentary Reporting Association, International Press Institute (IPI), World Press Photo Foundation, POY LATAM, LensCulture, APA – Austria Presse Agentur, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) e.V., UNICEF Austria and Vienna Insurance Group.
Images © Johanna Reithmayer, Gabor Fenyes Photographer / Alfa und UNION Biztosítók
