PhotoPaul
“I am not an Ideology!” LGBTQ+ POLAND
Exhibition Selection
2022
Since the PiS party came to power in Poland, several anti-LGBT laws have been implemented in the country. In 2019, for example, some 30 different 'LGBT-free zones' were declared, where it was forbidden to preach the 'destructive LGBT ideology'.
Lee-Ann Olwage
#BlackDragMagic
Exhibition Selection Singles
2020
De foto komt uit Olwage's fotoserie over het leven van Zwarte, queer, gender-nonconforme en transgender mensen in de townships van Kaapstad.
Watsamon Tri-yasakda
7465
Exhibition Selection
2022
From kindergarten to university, all Thai pupils and students have to wear a uniform. It ensures unity among them, but also hegemony and class distinction. For boys, it is a male uniform, consisting of shorts, a military haircut and a shirt with a name and student ID number. Everyone is the same.
Danielle Villasana
A Light Inside
3rd prize Open
2015
In Peru, a country with a highly machismo, conservative, religious and transphobic culture, transgender women are extremely marginalized and discriminated by society.
Martin Wannam
Amores Postmodernos
Exhibition Selection, Special mention Stories
2020
Amores Postmodernos a photographic series that aims to show pleasure in a queer lifestyle. I use queer subjects from Guatemala City, in scenes with a contemporary narrative base of social media, sex, gender and sexuality, with layers of religious symbolism.
DeLovie Kwagala
Anna
Exhibition Selection, Special mention Singles
2020
De foto is onderdeel van de serie The Quingdom Project ~ In Transition, die een inkijkje in de queer-gemeenschap van Oeganda.
Micha Serraf
Another day as greatness
2nd prize Singles
2019
The image was taken with queer people who pass as men, in an exploration of masculinity, African-ness and the construction and deconstruction of identity, belonging, blackness, queerness, and masculinity.
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Anyie ne Nye
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2022
Ghana is preparing an anti-LGBTQIA+ bill. Since then, violence against LGBT persons in Ghana has increased dramatically. Almost every day an alleged gay, lesbian or trans person is attacked and mistreated. ‘Artivist’ Va-Bene is fighting with her life against this bill.
Irina Popova
Appt. 779
1st prize Extremely Normal
2013
I was invited to stay in Apartment number 779 in 2008, when I was just back after the war in Georgia, and had nowhere to stay during my work and study in Moscow.
Seungwook Yang
Badasses
Special mention
2019
My idols or role models were masculine characters in movies or cartoon films when I was in my school days. They were uniformly strong and rough, and always made a violent look which was supposed to destroy anything. The stereotype of these guy images has been forcing us to become one of them.
Vianney Le Caer
Beirut Sun Tanners
2nd prize Stories
2016
This photo story series explores the sunbathing community of the American University of Beirut Beach, Lebanon, located beside the Corniche, a famous seaside promenade in downtown Beirut.
Kennedi Carter
Black Pride
Exhibition Selection Singles
2020
In the image Black Pride, the intersections of Blackness and Queerness are visualised. Kennedi Carter shot this image in her hometown of Durham in North Carolina, US, just outside a Pride Festival.
Constance Koningsberger
Body
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
BODY is a project by Constance Koningsberger, examining her personal experience, and self-perception around the stigmatisation of being fat.
Prins de Vos
Boys do cry
Exhibition Selection
2022
With this series, Prins wants to contribute to the emancipation of trans people, and also break the taboo on male vulnerability. This series shows that being vulnerable is also very positive and powerful, because: boys dó cry.
Luiz Maximiano
Bruna
Exhibition Selection
2022
Bruna, a 21-years-old transgender woman was attacked by three men in the street at Sao Carlos, Brazil, in 26 February 2021."Die, fag!" they shouted, while stabbing Bruma with a kitchen knife and cutting off her ear and hair.
Chiara Luxardo
Burma Love
3rd prize Theme: Unique
2019
In Myanmar (Burma), same sex marriage, and even relationships, are still illegal. While same sex marriage or civil partnerships are a distant hope, this series dreams of a revolution.
Quetzal Maucci
By the Time She Grows Up
Exhibition Selection Stories
2024
Quetzal Maucci’s long-term project BY THE TIME SHE GROWS UP presents a personal exploration of her own family structure. Born in the USA, Quetzal is the daughter of two queer women who migrated from Peru and Argentina respectively. Their names are Flavia and Lucrecia - for Quetzal ‘Mami y Mamú’. In recent years, a record number of laws actively targeting LGBTQIA+ rights have been introduced across the United States. This marks a pronounced acceleration in discriminatory legislation and rhetoric in the U.S. BY THE TIME SHE GROWS UP offers a heartwarming and reaffirming representation of what family truly means, and...
Ugo Woatzi
Chameleon
2nd prize Theme: Unique
2019
Chameleon is a photo essay about visibility and stands as a conversation between masculinities and spaces. Looking beyond heteronormative confines the still frames evoke the love, fear, joy and safe environments of people that exist outside these sometimes suffocating constructs.
Arianne Clément
Chloé
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
This is a picture of Chloé when she was 72-years-old. Chloé had begun her transition at the age of 67. Chloé passed away in early 2024. She was extremely proud of being the woman that she was, a strong voice in the community and an avid activist for transgender rights. Audio Tours of this entry Entry Audio Tour by Alejandra Ortiz, curator of this year's exhibition. Pride Photo Fundation · Audio Tour 2024 - EN - Arianne Clément, Chloé - By ALEJANDRA ORTIZ Project Audio Tour door Anne Fleur Schipper, journalist, programma- en podcastmaker. Pride Photo Fundation · Audio Tour...
Chris & Marjan
Clementine Willow
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
After having experienced homelessness for two years, Clementine Willow proudly poses in her home in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Having finally gained access to a house with the support of local healthcare organisations, Clementine is an advocate for change as she reflects on the trauma and hardship she experienced being unhoused as a disabled and LGBTQIA+ person. The number of homeless youth, aged between 18 and 27 in the Netherlands, has increased in recent years. Only a handful of shelters are accessible to disabled people, and even fewer are dedicated to the safety of LGBTQIA+ individuals. This project brings to light...
RJ Sangosti
ClubQ
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
Leia-jhene Seals was performing at Club Q when a 22-year-old gunman entered the LGBTQ nightclub killing five people and injuring others. Seals hugs R.J. Lewis, who was was also at the nightclub, during a vigil at All Souls Unitarian Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Blake Little
Concealed: Portraits of LGBT Gun Owners
Special mention
2019
Members of Pink Pistol, an organization of LGBTQ gun owners, that saw a great increase in members following the Orlando shooting.
Robert Andy Coombs
CripFag
Exhibition Selection
2022
The sexual experiences of (queer) people with physical disabilities are taboo. Photographer Robert Coombs breaks this taboo with his series 'CripFag'. A visual exploration of his own sexual and intimate adventures, full of romance, fantasies and kinks.
Eugenio Bosco
Cultivating Diversity
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
CULTIVATING DIVERSITY presents an artistic exploration of queer identity in a rapidly changing world. The works that make up this series are generated through a controlled feedback loop between the photographer’s own work and AI-generated imagery.AI models are trained through data, which is accumulated from images, texts, and other input provided by its users and developers. This offers a container of systematised knowledge that can reflect the perception of diverse sexual identities among a wider public. In CULTIVATING DIVERSITY Bosco seeks to unravel new and unexpressed concepts of queer sexuality. Audio Tours of this entry Entry Audio Tour by Alejandra...
Martijn Gijsbertsen
Daddy Cool
Special mention
2013
The series Daddy Cool shows the diversity of gay fathers in the Netherlands. I've been following these fathers and their children well over a year ago.
Tatiana Vinogradova
Days of Melancholy
1st prize Stories of Love and Pride
2015
This series of portraits is focused on the life of gay people in Russia. It is a visual tale of melancholy, loneliness and uncertainty about the future.
Andrés Gregorio Pérez
Dead family
Winner Stories
2023
I grew up in a family surrounded by women and lonely motherhood. I grew up seeing the absence of fatherhood. Men were less than women, but they decided and invoked a blind force.
Frederic Noy
Ekifire
3rd prize Insiders / Outsiders
2016
In Kigali, B., transexual and transvestite opens the shutter of her room of this tiny house. Her livelihood comes from prostitution, and often takes different narcotics which help her to cope with her marginalised existence During a party in the lounge of a girlfriend's house, C. dances while sipping a Primus, while A. watches upon them. The two friends survive in Kigali thanks to prostitution as it is extremely difficult or even impossible to find a job as soon as you are identified as LGBT. "I don’t sleep with anyone for money but for pleasure. This is what makes me...
Marika Puicha
Ella (She)
1st prize Gender
2015
I started taking pictures of Eli when she was 10 years old. I came back in Madrid in 2015 and for two weeks I have lived in close contact with Eli. We developed a strong and sincere bond, also with her family, based on the awareness of our common battle for the right of being yourself.
Marika Puicha
Ella (She)
Winner
2015
The photo shows a happy 11 year old transgender girl playing outside with her brother, by Photographer Marika Puicher.
Guangbo Li
Faceless Portraits
Exhibition Selection
2022
In 2019, Guangbo Li began to take private portraits of people who are currently perceived by Chinese society as ‘celebrities with huge followings’. These portraits are temporarily unseen and unpriced and lack faces which are highly recognizable masks and symbols. Guangbo Li presents these people only with their bodies and very little physical and material elements.
Vincent Gouriou
Family Time
3rd prize Singles
2015
This series is showing the life of a couple: Anne and Véronique, living in Brest, Brittany (France).
Cansu Yildiran
Fathom
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
FATHOM presents a series of staged documentary photographs honouring the stories of LGBTQIA+ individuals who have lost their lives in fatal homophobic attacks. Yıldıran works with individuals from the LGBTQIA+ currently living in Turkey to create these powerful images. Yıldıran draws on modes of non-normative storytelling, and through their practice creates a connection between those who have been killed, and those who survive, visually representing the struggles and very real danger that the LGBTQIA+ community continues to face. FATHOM is an exploration of queer identities, and a testament to resilience. Audio Tours of this entry Entry Audio Tour by Alejandra...
Corinne Mariaud
Flower Beauty Boys
2nd prize Open
2019
Portraits of young men obsessed by their appearance and controlling their image on social networks, looking for physical perfection, retouching their face with coloured lenses, makeup and even surgery.
Anne-Sophie Guillet
Force
Exhibition Selection Singles
2023
I write on my skin, to make us both in tune. To make revolution my way. It's my own rebellion, my armor to protect me from the too harsh outside world. I write on my body and those of my peers. To heal and be healed. It is our secret little link. Behind our shells in perpetual transformation, we create small self-sufficient shelters.
Mickey Aliosio
From Europe with Love
1st prize Open
2019
During a two-month backpacking trip through Europe in the spring of 2018 Mickey Aloisio photographed over 50 men in six cities. He found himself stepping in front of the lens with them as a way of visually documenting and reflecting on these immensely intimate first encounters.
Ziyu Wang
Go Get’Em Boy
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
In "Go get them, boy!" the audience takes on the role of the elders of the family to examine the image of manhood I have created for my father.
Keiji Fujimoto
Group of gay men sharing a room in Kampala
1st prize Singles
2019
They left their home towns in the countryside of Uganda after their parents discovered they were gay.