Pride Photo 2015
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.
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.
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.
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).
Gazi Nafis Ahmed
Inner Face
3rd prize Stories of Love and Pride
2015
Any discussion around sex and sexuality is taboo in my country. It is a family-oriented, moderate society with strong economic class structure.
Keeping Touch
2nd prize Singles
2015
Self-exploration as a transgender femme through the act of photography
Mariam Magsi
Muslim Pride
1st prize Singles
2015
You may veil us, but you will never dictate who we love. Our love transcends your intolerance. Our love is greater than your hate.
Jörg Meier
Nod. East of Eden.
2nd prize Open
2015
When expelled by God, Kain went to the Land of Nod, east of Eden (Genesis 4:16). Nod stems from nad: restless, wandering.
Suzanne Reitsma
Replace She with He
Special mention
2015
In the Netherlands, a country with more than 17 million inhabitants, 100 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year.
Marika Puicha
Solo
2nd prize Stories of Love and Pride
2015
Imane, 19, lives in Casablanca and is a lesbian. She says she is “A lesbian proud of herself!” She has never hidden her homosexuality
Jean-François Bouchard
Transpose
2nd prize Gender
2015
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
Two is One
3rd prize Gender
2015
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...