Pride Photo Award 2019
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.
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.
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.
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. Miraculously, she has recovered to being loving and positive human being with an incredible sense of humor.
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.
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 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.
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 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...
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.
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 environments of people that exist outside these sometimes suffocating constructs.
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.
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 with them as a way of visually documenting and reflecting on these immensely intimate first encounters.
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.
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 communities.
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 court case and public caning, of men who were in a same-sex relationship.
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 violent look which was supposed to destroy anything. The stereotype of these guy images has been forcing us to become one of them.