Pride Photo Award 2015
Winner
Marika Puicha
Ella (She)
The photo shows a happy 11 year old transgender girl playing outside with her brother, by Photographer Marika Puicher.
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.
2nd prize Singles
Keeping Touch
Self-exploration as a transgender femme through the act of photography
3rd prize Singles
Vincent Gouriou
Family Time
This series is showing the life of a couple: Anne and Véronique, living in Brest, Brittany (France).
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 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.
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 for physical and psychological self-alignment.
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 subjects masculinity and femininity. Thus, creating an image where man is woman and woman is man...
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.