Pride Photo Award 2020
Exhibition Selection Stories
B. Proud
Say Their Names
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
Exhibition Selection Stories
Jörg Meier
Out There – Queer Farmers in Europe
There is an established LGBTQ+ community in the agricultural sector, and just like their straight colleagues, queer farmers tend to put their businesses first.
Winner Stories
Yoppy Pieter
Transwoman : Between Color & Voice
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.
Winner Stories
Andrés Gregorio Pérez
Dead family
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.
1st prize Stories
Nelson Morales
Musas muxe
The Muxes are the third gender of the indigenous community of the isthmus of Oaxaca in Mexico, where the photographer was born.
1st prize Stories
Bénédicte Desrus
Samantha Flores, a woman of her own making
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.
1st prize, Exhibition Selection Stories
Sumi Anjuman
Somewhere Else Than Here
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?
2nd prize Stories
Carloman Macidiano Cespedes Riojas
Immigration LGBTQ in Buenos Aires
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.
2nd prize Stories
Vianney Le Caer
Beirut Sun Tanners
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.
3rd prize Stories
Marc Ohrem-Leclef
Jugaad – Of Intimacy and Love
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...
3rd prize Stories
Elena Anosova
Section
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.
Exhibition Selection, Special mention Stories
Martin Wannam
Amores Postmodernos
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.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Oded Wagenstein
Transparent Curtains – Exclusion as Experienced by Gay Elders
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.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Lana Yanovska
Selective Perception
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.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Şener Yılmaz Aslan
Refugee Trans Guest House
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.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Ksenia Kuleshova
Ordinary People
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.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Ilvy Njiokiktjien
I Don’t Want To Be Gay In This Ukraine
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.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Chiara Fabbro
Invisible border
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.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Clara Watt
The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values: A Protest
In February 2021, Accra's first LGBTQ+ Community space was raided and forcibly closed by local law enforcement, only a few weeks after its opening. While it often feels the world is progressing into a more socially accepting space for people based on sexual or gender identities, the events of February 2021 show that LGBTQ+ Ghanaians are being left behind.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Sarah Mei Herman
Solace
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.
Exhibition Selection Stories
RJ Sangosti
ClubQ
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.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Ziyu Wang
Go Get’Em Boy
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.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Mackenzie Calle
The Gay Space Agency
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.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Adrien Selbert
La Creole
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.