The Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) in the Northwest-European region invites its member cities to participate in a photo competition under the title “Modern Life in an Old City”. Starting with the official launch of the project September 8^th, the Solidarity Day of World Heritage Cities, especially young people are invited to submit their photos on the OWHC webpage www.ovpm.org/en/Modern_Life_in_an_Old_City with a registration and upload function.

The competition will run from Sept. 8^th to Nov. 8^th and has two competition levels: on the first level, each participating city will select its winning photo and this will be awarded with a prize of € 350,-. The second level then will collect all winning photos of the participating cities and an overall regional winning photo will be selected in an international OWHC jury and honoured with a prize money of € 700,-.

The title of the competition intends to generate photographs showing modern, young aspects of live in a heritage city. A combination of young and old, favourite spots in a heritage site, architecture of the 21^st century that goes together with historical facades – many aspects are possible.

The regional secretariat of Northwest-Europe hopes for many participating cities and invites everybody to take a camera and go out, get that picture, and participate!