• Play Toy A 2019 Seungwook Yang
  • Play Toy B 2019 Seungwook Yang

Winner

Seungwook Yang

Play Toy

The series Play Toy refers to the magazine Playboy. The photographer created gay bedroom scenes with various toys and took pictures of them.

  • Group of gay men sharing a room in Kampala 2019 Keiji Fujimoto

1st prize Singles

Keiji Fujimoto

Group of gay men sharing a room in Kampala

They left their home towns in the countryside of Uganda after their parents discovered they were gay.

  • Micha Serraf Another day as greatness

2nd prize Singles

Micha Serraf

Another day as greatness

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.

  • Paola 2019 Koen Suidgeest

3rd prize Singles

Koen Suidgeest

Paola

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....

  • Our piety 2019 Nelson Morales
  • Statues 2019 Nelson Morales

1st prize Stories

Nelson Morales

Musas muxe

The Muxes are the third gender of the indigenous community of the isthmus of Oaxaca in Mexico, where the photographer was born.

  • Alex from Peru
  • Yojan from Colombia

2nd prize Stories

Carloman Macidiano Cespedes Riojas

Immigration LGBTQ in Buenos Aires

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...

  • Friends Chotu and Rajan leaving the temple 01
  • Goal and Chandan stopped on thei rbike commute 02

3rd prize Stories

Marc Ohrem-Leclef

Jugaad – Of Intimacy and Love

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...

  • Self Portrait as my Mother as a Cheerleader
  • Self Portrait as a Woman in the Hospital

1st prize Theme: Unique

Vaughan Larsen

Rites

In these self-portraits the photographer reenacts ceremonies from heteronormative, cisgendered culture. These photographs are direct parodies of moments their family members lived through.

  • Ugo Woatzi 1
  • Ugo Woatzi 7

2nd prize Theme: Unique

Ugo Woatzi

Chameleon

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...

  • Honey and Z
  • Honey and Z 02

3rd prize Theme: Unique

Chiara Luxardo

Burma Love

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.

  • Self Portrait with Mo and Michael Berlin
  • Self Portrait with Christopher Amsterdam

1st prize Open

Mickey Aliosio

From Europe with Love

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...

2nd prize Open

Corinne Mariaud

Flower Beauty Boys

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.

  • Transformation 2019 Anja Matthes
  • Before the battle 2019 Anja Matthes

3rd prize Open

Anja Matthes

The House of Bangy Cunt

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...

  • Charlotte, Las Vegas, NV, 2017 2019 Blake Little
  • Lynn, Brett, Joe, Las Vegas, NV, 2017 2019 Blake Little

Special mention

Blake Little

Concealed: Portraits of LGBT Gun Owners

Members of Pink Pistol, an organization of LGBTQ gun owners, that saw a great increase in members following the Orlando shooting.

Special mention

Hotli Simanjuntak

Sharia Law Against LGBT

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...

  • Badasses Macgregor
  • Badasses 01

Special mention

Seungwook Yang

Badasses

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...