Pride Photo 2016
Turkish documentary photographer Akin Celiktas was the overall Pride Photo 2016 winner, with an image from the 2016 Istanbul Gay Pride March, which was banned.
The 2016 edition looked towards communities; groups that you may want to feel a part of, un/welcoming people in the communities you belong to. It is about joining, belonging, participating and ostracising. It is about families, society, parishes, clubs, intimate circles.
The theme equally reflects of the role of the photographer as an outsider or insider; whether the photographer creates a world that invites the viewer in, or shows the viewer a world they are not a part of, conjuring up voyeuristic feelings.
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.
Frederic Noy
Ekifire
3rd prize Insiders / Outsiders
2016
In Kigali, B., transexual and transvestite opens the shutter of her room of this tiny house. Her livelihood comes from prostitution, and often takes different narcotics which help her to cope with her marginalised existence During a party in the lounge of a girlfriend's house, C. dances while sipping a Primus, while A. watches upon them. The two friends survive in Kigali thanks to prostitution as it is extremely difficult or even impossible to find a job as soon as you are identified as LGBT. "I don’t sleep with anyone for money but for pleasure. This is what makes me...
Akın Çeliktaş
LGBT Pride Bans in Istanbul
Winner Singles
2016
The photo shows a young woman in rainbow stockings standing in the street while the riot police march past. The Istanbul Gay Pride march, which had been planned for Sunday June 26, 2016, was banned because of ‘security concerns’.
Vincent Gouriou
Mélanie & Her Family
2nd prize Insiders / Outsiders
2016
Mélanie is posing with her boyfriend, her father, her step-mother and her sister. She's in the middle of a sexual reassignment. She is highly supported by her family, her friends and her boyfriend. She accepted to participate in this project as an activist gesture to put in the light the life of transgender people.
Lana Yanovska
Polarity
1st prize Insiders / Outsiders
2016
Androgyny scares, baffles and fascinates at the same time. Androgynous people live between the polarities of a binary society: visually they fit neither the female nor male stereotype. Their dual natures coexist in each world like cross-faded images contained in one frame. Separating them into two classic genders makes this polarity visible and present while mirroring back the viewer's norms and stereotypes.
Geloy Concepcion
Reynas Delas Flores: Manila’s Golden Gays
Special mention
2016
You might have come across some of us amidst the stream of people that are out and about in the streets of Pasay Manila - We are the Golden Gays.
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.
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.
Kris Sanford
Through The Lens of Desire
3rd prize Open
2016
Relationships, real or imagined, are at the center of this work. Growing up queer, I searched for a history that spoke to me—included me.
Gian Cruz
You as Me
2nd prize Open
2016
This series of self-portraits serves both as counterpoint and compliment as to how the self is represented in our times—in the digital age, in the age of social media
Rowan Renee
Z
1st prize Open
2016
Z (2015) is a collection of nude ambrotype portraits working with transgender, cisgender, and a spectrum of genderqueer and gender non-conforming individuals.