1st prize Gender

Marika Puicha

Ella (She)

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.

  • Jean Francois Bouchard 1
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2nd prize Gender

Jean-François Bouchard

Transpose

By spending time with people at different stages of their transition, Bouchard discovered the vast complexity of the processes and transformations that female-to-males have had to undergo in their quest for physical and psychological self-alignment.

  • Melody Melamed a
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3rd prize Gender

Melody Melamed

Two is One

Look deeply and you will see that man and woman are not seen as separate beings... In Two Is One, I challenge the role of gender by engaging with my subjects masculinity and femininity. Thus, creating an image where man is woman and woman is man...