• Ella (She)

Winner

Marika Puicha

Ella (She)

The photo shows a happy 11 year old transgender girl playing outside with her brother, by Photographer Marika Puicher.

  • Muslim Pride Mariam Magsi

1st prize Singles

Mariam Magsi

Muslim Pride

You may veil us, but you will never dictate who we love. Our love transcends your intolerance. Our love is greater than your hate.

  • Keeping Touch Jose Virgilio

2nd prize Singles

Keeping Touch

Self-exploration as a transgender femme through the act of photography

  • Family Time Vincent Gouriou

3rd prize Singles

Vincent Gouriou

Family Time

This series is showing the life of a couple: Anne and Véronique, living in Brest, Brittany (France).

  • Ella (She)
  • Ella (She)

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...

  • Jean Francois Bouchard 1
  • Jean Francois Bouchard 3

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...

  • Melody Melamed a
  • Melody Melamed b

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...

  • Tatiana Vinogradova 1
  • Tatiana Vinogradova 6

1st prize Stories of Love and Pride

Tatiana Vinogradova

Days of Melancholy

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.

  • Solo To be lesbian in Casablanca
  • Solo To be lesbian in Casablanca

2nd prize Stories of Love and Pride

Marika Puicha

Solo

Imane, 19, lives in Casablanca and is a lesbian. She says she is “A lesbian proud of herself!” She has never hidden her homosexuality

  • Inner Face Any discussion around sex and sexuality is taboo in my country. It is a family oriented, moderate society with strong economic class structure. The sporadic discussion online have been mostly negative, with people calling homosexuality a sin, a psychological disorder, or just perverted behavior. The government, specifically the Health Ministry, has extensive HIV/AIDS policy that includes Men having Sex with Men (MSM). There are also several NGOs working with MSMs and the Hijra community, but there is no formal organization working for the LGBT community. In this patriarchal society womenÕs sexuality is absolutely silenced and lesbians are a minority within a minority. And last but not least, there is penal code 377, which is a British colonial law criminalizing Òunnatural sexÓ. The law has never been implemented but is regularly used to harass LGBT people. The series ÒInner FaceÓ challenges the heterosexist norms and the culture of collective denial & ideals upon which our society is based on.
  • Inner Face Any discussion around sex and sexuality is taboo in my country. It is a family oriented, moderate society with strong economic class structure. The sporadic discussion online have been mostly negative, with people calling homosexuality a sin, a psychological disorder, or just perverted behavior. The government, specifically the Health Ministry, has extensive HIV/AIDS policy that includes Men having Sex with Men (MSM). There are also several NGOs working with MSMs and the Hijra community, but there is no formal organization working for the LGBT community. In this patriarchal society womenÕs sexuality is absolutely silenced and lesbians are a minority within a minority. And last but not least, there is penal code 377, which is a British colonial law criminalizing Òunnatural sexÓ. The law has never been implemented but is regularly used to harass LGBT people. The series ÒInner FaceÓ challenges the heterosexist norms and the culture of collective denial & ideals upon which our society is based on.

3rd prize Stories of Love and Pride

Gazi Nafis Ahmed

Inner Face

Any discussion around sex and sexuality is taboo in my country. It is a family-oriented, moderate society with strong economic class structure.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Suzanne Reitsma Andre
  • Suzanne Reitsma Simon

Special mention

Suzanne Reitsma

Replace She with He

In the Netherlands, a country with more than 17 million inhabitants, 100 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year.