Pride Photo 2019
The 2019 edition received nearly 3,800 photographs from 409 photographers, and looked for special stories and images of special LGBTQIA+ people.
The topic Unique covered surprising angles and innovative ways of telling a story about sexual and gender diversity; stories that focused on unusual and unique LGBTQIA+ individuals or groups. Stories about unique people who live their lives without compromise or shame, stories about the courage you to be yourself, no matter what.
The winning image was from the Series PLAYTOY, by South-Korean photographer Seungwook Yang.
Micha Serraf
Another day as greatness
2nd prize Singles
2019
The image was taken with queer people who pass as men, in an exploration of masculinity, African-ness and the construction and deconstruction of identity, belonging, blackness, queerness, and masculinity.
Seungwook Yang
Badasses
Special mention
2019
My idols or role models were masculine characters in movies or cartoon films when I was in my school days. They were uniformly strong and rough, and always made a violent look which was supposed to destroy anything. The stereotype of these guy images has been forcing us to become one of them.
Chiara Luxardo
Burma Love
3rd prize Theme: Unique
2019
In Myanmar (Burma), same sex marriage, and even relationships, are still illegal. While same sex marriage or civil partnerships are a distant hope, this series dreams of a revolution.
Ugo Woatzi
Chameleon
2nd prize Theme: Unique
2019
Chameleon is a photo essay about visibility and stands as a conversation between masculinities and spaces. Looking beyond heteronormative confines the still frames evoke the love, fear, joy and safe environments of people that exist outside these sometimes suffocating constructs.
Blake Little
Concealed: Portraits of LGBT Gun Owners
Special mention
2019
Members of Pink Pistol, an organization of LGBTQ gun owners, that saw a great increase in members following the Orlando shooting.
Corinne Mariaud
Flower Beauty Boys
2nd prize Open
2019
Portraits of young men obsessed by their appearance and controlling their image on social networks, looking for physical perfection, retouching their face with coloured lenses, makeup and even surgery.
Mickey Aliosio
From Europe with Love
1st prize Open
2019
During a two-month backpacking trip through Europe in the spring of 2018 Mickey Aloisio photographed over 50 men in six cities. He found himself stepping in front of the lens with them as a way of visually documenting and reflecting on these immensely intimate first encounters.
Keiji Fujimoto
Group of gay men sharing a room in Kampala
1st prize Singles
2019
They left their home towns in the countryside of Uganda after their parents discovered they were gay.
Carloman Macidiano Cespedes Riojas
Immigration LGBTQ in Buenos Aires
2nd prize Stories
2019
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.
Marc Ohrem-Leclef
Jugaad – Of Intimacy and Love
3rd prize Stories
2019
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...
Nelson Morales
Musas muxe
1st prize Stories
2019
The Muxes are the third gender of the indigenous community of the isthmus of Oaxaca in Mexico, where the photographer was born.
Koen Suidgeest
Paola
3rd prize Singles
2019
Paola was in a coma for three months and it took her nine months to leave the hospital, during which all she wanted to do was take her own life. Miraculously, she has recovered to being loving and positive human being with an incredible sense of humor.
Seungwook Yang
Play Toy
Winner
2019
The series Play Toy refers to the magazine Playboy. The photographer created gay bedroom scenes with various toys and took pictures of them.
Vaughan Larsen
Rites
1st prize Theme: Unique
2019
In these self-portraits the photographer reenacts ceremonies from heteronormative, cisgendered culture. These photographs are direct parodies of moments their family members lived through.
Hotli Simanjuntak
Sharia Law Against LGBT
Special mention
2019
Under Sharia law in Aceh, Indonesia, transgressions are punished by corporeal punishment. The number of lashes varies from 7 to 100, depending on the perceived severity. The photos show a court case and public caning, of men who were in a same-sex relationship.
Anja Matthes
The House of Bangy Cunt
3rd prize Open
2019
The underground Kiki Ballroom scene in New York City is a community organized by LGBTQ youth (14-25 years) of color, many of whom were cast out by their families and communities.