Pride Photo 2020
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
Supranav Dash
EROS AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Stories
2025
Eros And Its Discontents explores the lives and desires of individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community living in India. This series of performative portraits embodies struggles of identity, hopes and dreams, pleasures and pain, acceptance and rejection. The people in the images are treading a psychological minefield; whose lives are a crisscross of complexities arising out of a religious, conservative and homophobic culture and rhetoric present in contemporary Hindu communities in India. In 2018, the Indian Supreme Court struck down ‘Section 377’ of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalised same-sex relations between consenting adults. This law, originally put in place under...
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.
Ilvy Njiokiktjien
I Don’t Want To Be Gay In This Ukraine
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
Right after the invasion of Ukraine members of the LGBTQI community fear for their future. They are thought to be among the designated targets of a Russian campaign to oppress sectors of the community, and names of LGBTQI activists have apparently appeared on Russian kill lists.
Julie Sundberg
I Remember Everything
2nd prize, Winner Stories
2024
This is a story spanning my 35 year relationship with Danny Abood. It is about identity and gender, addiction, ageing and illness, love, loss and death.
Carloman Macidiano Cespedes Riojas
Immigration LGBTQ in Buenos Aires
2nd prize Stories
2019
In Peru and especially in the provinces, being gay is a taboo, there is a lot of discrimination, so in 2005 I was able to travel to Buenos Aires. Since 2017 I have been photographing boys residing in Buenos Aires, mostly from bordering countries and Latin America, their stories have similarities to mine ... we all arrive in search of freedom.
Chiara Fabbro
Invisible border
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
Dimitri was born in the small fishing village of Skála Sikaminéas, on the Greek island of Lesvos. At the age of 14, she told her parents that she was a girl. She struggled to be accepted throughout her life and experienced tough times, living in a mental institution during her childhood, followed by years of homelessness in Athens.
Marc Ohrem-Leclef
Jugaad – Of Intimacy and Love
3rd prize Stories
2019
Friends Chotu and Rajan leaving the temple Soon after beginning my research to prepare 'Jugaad-Of intimacy and Love' I realised that my attempts to locate familiar identities in the public gestures rooted in India's homosocial culture would only stand in the way of embracing the many subtle layers of intimacies my collaborators eventually began sharing with me. QUOTE: “ What we feel is, when we hold hands and walk, the love that we have gets strengthened even further. Our love becomes deeper and we establish trust in each other and build upon it through this." Gaurav. For 'Jugaad-Of Intimacy and...
Adrien Selbert
La Creole
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
In a world that tends to shut down under the influence of pandemics and the return of conservatism, La Creole remind France of the diversity of its children.
Su Cassiano
LOVE HARDER
Stories
2025
Love Harder is an ongoing, long-term series which explores the positioning of queer identities in relation to religion in the conservative Mediterranean cultural regions. This project aims to map out the multiplicity of queer people that continue to exist within cultures that try to deny and delegitimize their identities through visual portraiture, landscape photography, and personal interviews. This project takes place in various countries around the Mediterranean basin, including Malta, Turkey, and France, and works with LGBTQIA+ people from Catholic and Muslim backgrounds. Each portrait acts as a window into the life of a queer person who was raised within...
Mit Euren Spuren Collective
MIT EUREN SPEUREN
Stories
2025
Up until 1994, Germany’s legal code criminalised same-sex relationships under ‘Section 175’, and created a climate of oppression and persecution of the LGBTQIA+ community. Due to this societal stigmatization and discrimination, many of Germany’s seniors were forced to conceal their sexual and gender identities, and never had the opportunity to live as themselves freely and without fear. Mit Euren Spuren (With Your Traces) is an interdisciplinary photography project encompassing a long-term collaborative endeavour between six queer photographers and eight queer senior citizens. The result is an intergenerational exchange of ideas about queer life, and the distinctive experiences of various generations...
Nelson Morales
Musas muxe
1st prize Stories
2019
The Muxes are the third gender of the indigenous community of the isthmus of Oaxaca in Mexico, where the photographer was born.
Akanksha Pandey
MY DAUGHTER, BONITA
Stories
2025
My Daughter, Bonita is an intimate and multi-layered portrait of Bonita's journey in navigating her gender transition, throughout which she has been unwaveringly supported by her sister. Bonita’s story is intertwined with personal, familial, and societal dynamics present in contemporary India. Growing up in a rural village in Rajasthan, Bonita faced multiple challenges when integrating her female identity amongst people who have known her since birth. Bonita's sister who, due to the lack of a strong male figure, took on traditionally masculine roles within the family as the primary provider and protector. The sisters chose to migrate into more progressive...
Meret Eberl
NBSW
Stories
2025
NBSW is an ode to non-binary people who are, or have been, engaged in sex work at some point in their lives. Popular discourse and institutional policies often overlook the existence, needs, and safety of non-binary people as well as sex workers. Without legal recognition of their gender identity, non-binary people are often forced to repeatedly assert their right to exist in both personal and professional life. Gender stereotypes, classism, and racism reinforce these barriers in the realm of sex work, often silencing the voices of those affected and impeding the communication of their needs and experiences. This lack of...
Ksenia Kuleshova
Ordinary People
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
Several anti-gay laws have come into force in Russia in the past decade. The series shows a more realistic image of LGBTQ+ people, telling their own everyday stories of love and happiness.
Jörg Meier
Out There – Queer Farmers in Europe
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
There is an established LGBTQ+ community in the agricultural sector, and just like their straight colleagues, queer farmers tend to put their businesses first.
Vincent Wechselberger
READY
Stories
2025
READY offers an honest series of portraits around contemporary queer sex work, through the photographer Wechselberger’s own relationship to the industry. Wechselberger writes, “When I was 18, I first received an offer for ‘pocket money’ online – for sexual services. Soon after, I moved to Berlin and immersed myself in a new world of dates and clients, many of whom became regulars. Through sex work, I experienced new forms of freedom. I reinvented myself. I let go of preconceived societal notions about how I should live my life. A central aim of this series is to re-frame how we think...
Şener Yılmaz Aslan
Refugee Trans Guest House
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
Where do you find refuge when there is no place in society for who you are and who you love as a person? This series shows a sheltered way of living and the impact it has on the road of life.
Claudia Deganutti
RUTH E BILLIE
Stories
2025
Ruth & Billie portrays the realities of two siblings on a journey of self-actualisation, as they grow into their sexual and gender identities whilst growing up within a conservative Catholic family in a rural town in Italy. This series examines how dogma and tradition influence our understanding and acceptance of sexual and gender identity and diversity. Billie is 18-years-old, and although they were assigned female at birth, they identify closer to male in terms of gender identity. Ruth is 22-years-old and identifies as female, and as pansexual, which means she finds herself attracted to people of all gender identities. Both...
Bénédicte Desrus
Samantha Flores, a woman of her own making
1st prize Stories
2016
Samantha Flores - now 84 - came out as a transgender woman in Mexico City 23 years ago, though she wasn’t able to officially change her gender identity until recently. In 2015 she was baptised as Samantha Aurelia Vicenta Flores García, a lifelong dream.
B. Proud
Say Their Names
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
Deze fotos toont de locaties waar een transgender persoon is vermoord en zijn een eerbetoon aan degenen die zijn vermoord / This series shows different locations where transgender people have been murdered, paying homage to those who have lost their lives
Elena Anosova
Section
3rd prize Stories
2016
The project is about women’s prisons is a part of a trilogy that is centered around the lives of women in closed institutions. The impulse of research of such communities arose in a reflection of my teenage period spent at the closed rehabilitation boarding school. I spent a few months, working in several prisons for women in the Siberia.
Lana Yanovska
Selective Perception
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
Yanovska's serie speelt met relaties, seksualiteit, en onze percepties. Wat zie jij als je naar de koppels kijkt? Bij geen van deze set foto's weten we welk koppel authentiek is, en welk in scène is gezet.
Sarah Mei Herman
Solace
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
In China gay-sexuality is not illegal anymore but it is still unaccepted by society and the older generations. Hardly any of the young people I met and photographed for this project are able to speak openly to their parents about their sexual preferences.
Sumi Anjuman
Somewhere Else Than Here
1st prize, Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
Born into a strange universe where caged birds can sing but cannot fly, where our love is unloved, yet to die. Is everything untrue or are we?
Mackenzie Calle
The Gay Space Agency
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
To date, 600 people have been astronauts. None have flown into space as an openly LGBTQ+ person. The Gay Space Agency confronts the American Space program’s historical exclusion of openly queer astronauts and asks what American heroism looks like and who might be a part of future exploration.
Lisa Großkopf
THE PHOTOSTUDIO
Stories
2025
THE PHOTO STUDIO is a long-running multi-medial series exploring the interplay between visual and aesthetic currents and their representation of societal norms. With a playful and experimental approach, Großkopf uses photography to examine and challenge contemporary social conditions. The Photo Studio takes aim at traditional family portraiture that often reinforce outdated gender roles. By setting up fictional photo studios in empty shop windows, Großkopf subverts expectations. Instead of images of nuclear families, and stereotypical portraits of binary gender ideals, Großkopf presents a refreshingly critical and feminist perspective. The work deconstructs gender roles, undermines conventional lifestyles, and champions diverse relationship models...
Oded Wagenstein
Transparent Curtains – Exclusion as Experienced by Gay Elders
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
The five men pictured in this series, are all gay and over the age of seventy. We have talked for hours. About aging and dreams, love, exclusion, and fears, and out of these conversations, this series was formed.
Yoppy Pieter
Transwoman : Between Color & Voice
Winner Stories
2022
In conservative Indonesia, transwoman community multifaceted struggles are being affected by the outbreak of covid-19, including the risk of Covid-19 infection, difficulty to access social assistance from the government, job loss, and the damaging effects of long-term stigma and discrimination.
Melissa Ianniello
WISH IT WAS A COMING OUT
Stories
2025
Wish it Was a Coming Out is an ongoing long-term project portraying LGBTQIA+ senior citizens in Italy. For many of the people photographed, the shifts in legislation experienced over the past decades have directly impacted their lives and individual human rights. The history of LGBTQIA+ rights in Italy is marked by significant social, cultural, and legal turbulence. Albeit shifts towards greater acceptance and protection for LGBTQIA+ people in the early 21st century, the political rise of far-right and conservative parties has massively regressed the state of protection. As recently as 2021, Italy’s far-right parties voted against a law that would...
Ohm Phanphiroj
YOU WILL BE THERE
Stories
2025
You Will Be There is a self-portrait series exploring issues of self, sexuality, and binary gender roles. By examining the relationship between the self and others in an intimate context, both privately and publicly, Phanphiroj aims to engage in dialogues around race, gender identity, roleplay, seduction, longing, and acceptance. Phanphiroj reflects on these portraits “reveal my personal desire for an openness and a search to understand not only who and what I am, but how the world understands me, regards me, and judges me.” This project is not only a personal response to a desire to understand himself, but also...