• Self Portrait with Mo and Michael Berlin
  • Self Portrait with Christopher Amsterdam

1st prize Open

Mickey Aliosio

From Europe with Love

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...

  • Renee Rowan 1
  • Renee Rowan 2

1st prize Open

Rowan Renee

Z

Z (2015) is a collection of nude ambrotype portraits working with transgender, cisgender, and a spectrum of genderqueer and gender non-conforming individuals.

  • Eric Gyamfi 1
  • Eric Gyamfi2

1st prize Open

Eric Gyamfi

Asylum

ASYLUM is a series of mainly self-portraits that seeks to examine the contemporary African male sexuality against a backdrop of religion and tradition.

2nd prize Open

Corinne Mariaud

Flower Beauty Boys

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.

  • Gian Cruz 01 Earl
  • Gian Cruz 07 Thysz

2nd prize Open

Gian Cruz

You as Me

This series of self-portraits serves both as counterpoint and compliment as to how the self is represented in our times—in the digital age, in the age of social media

  • Nod 1
  • Nod 2

2nd prize Open

Jörg Meier

Nod. East of Eden.

When expelled by God, Kain went to the Land of Nod, east of Eden (Genesis 4:16). Nod stems from nad: restless, wandering.

  • Transformation 2019 Anja Matthes
  • Before the battle 2019 Anja Matthes

3rd prize Open

Anja Matthes

The House of Bangy Cunt

The underground Kiki Ballroom scene in New York City is a community organized by LGBTQ youth (14-25 years) of color, many of whom were cast out by their families and...

  • Kris Sanford Bathing Suits
  • Kris Sanford Well Suited

3rd prize Open

Kris Sanford

Through The Lens of Desire

Relationships, real or imagined, are at the center of this work. Growing up queer, I searched for a history that spoke to me—included me.

  • Danielle Villasana Community
  • Danielle Villasana caring for a newborn

3rd prize Open

Danielle Villasana

A Light Inside

In Peru, a country with a highly machismo, conservative, religious and transphobic culture, transgender women are extremely marginalized and discriminated by society.