Pride Photo
Pride Photo Award 2022
Winner Singles
Haneem Christian
The Lovers
This image is from a series that explores the depths, beauty and sacred nature of Queer Love. Queer Muslim love. A love that is so vast and incredible but very rarely spoken about or celebrated.
Winner Stories
Yoppy Pieter
Transwoman : Between Color & Voice
In conservative Indonesia, transwoman community multifaceted struggles are being affected by the outbreak of covid-19, including the risk of Covid-19 infection, difficulty to access social assistance from the government, job loss, and the damaging effects of long-term stigma and discrimination.
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Kami Dubel
Kleurrijk ouder worden
For the series Colourful Ageing, photographer Kami Dubel and creative producer Nina van Rheenen portrayed residents of Amsterdam care organisation Cordaan. A statement, to celebrate that everyone can be themselves and can love whomever they want. This does not change when you are older or when there is a sudden need for care.
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Robert Andy Coombs
CripFag
The sexual experiences of (queer) people with physical disabilities are taboo. Photographer Robert Coombs breaks this taboo with his series 'CripFag'. A visual exploration of his own sexual and intimate adventures, full of romance, fantasies and kinks.
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Carlos Saavedra
Limpia
Every year, thousands of Colombians are selectively killed and displaced in so-called social cleansing campaigns. Pamphlets advertising "La Mano Negra " occupy public spaces in the country's poorest neighborhoods.
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Robert Siegelman
The Model and The Photographer
Exploitation is becoming more and more a hot topic in photography. Even more when it comes to the photography of minorities and unseen communities.
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PhotoPaul
“I am not an Ideology!” LGBTQ+ POLAND
Since the PiS party came to power in Poland, several anti-LGBT laws have been implemented in the country. In 2019, for example, some 30 different 'LGBT-free zones' were declared, where it was forbidden to preach the 'destructive LGBT ideology'.
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David Těšínský
Soccer Love
With his controversial photos, David Těšínský tries to dispel stereotypes and open people's eyes. Like the acceptance of homosexuality in sports, and specifically in professional football.
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Prins de Vos
Boys do cry
With this series, Prins wants to contribute to the emancipation of trans people, and also break the taboo on male vulnerability. This series shows that being vulnerable is also very positive and powerful, because: boys dó cry.
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Watsamon Tri-yasakda
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From kindergarten to university, all Thai pupils and students have to wear a uniform. It ensures unity among them, but also hegemony and class distinction. For boys, it is a male uniform, consisting of shorts, a military haircut and a shirt with a name and student ID number. Everyone is the same.
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Guangbo Li
Faceless Portraits
In 2019, Guangbo Li began to take private portraits of people who are currently perceived by Chinese society as ‘celebrities with huge followings’. These portraits are temporarily unseen and unpriced and lack faces which are highly recognizable masks and symbols. Guangbo Li presents these people only with their bodies and very little physical and material elements.
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Luiz Maximiano
Bruna
Bruna, a 21-years-old transgender woman was attacked by three men in the street at Sao Carlos, Brazil, in 26 February 2021."Die, fag!" they shouted, while stabbing Bruma with a kitchen knife and cutting off her ear and hair.
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Bradley Secker
كتمان / Kütmaan
Kütmaan is a collection of intimate portraits and daily-life documentary photographs about individuals displaced, and/or claiming asylum, based on their sexuality or gender identity, from more than 20 countries around the world. It is a decade-long project, which began in 2010 in Damascus, Syria.
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Alessio Maximilian Schroder
The Shape of Self (2014-2019)
Since the Indian Supreme Court recognised the Third Sex in 2014, the socio-economic position of the trans community has improved significantly. The project Shape of Self shows this through portraits of trans people from West Bengal.
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Mariam Magsi
Rebels at Heart
Rebels at Heart is a playful response to the stereotyping of certain people into boxes, labels and categories that lack nuance, and eventually end up denying them their full, complex humanity.
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JeanPaul Paula
Nos Kultura
Jean-Paul Paula is a Dutch activist, stylist and artist. In this work, he shows the reunion with his parents after years of rejection. These photos are proof that things can get back on track.
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Anyie ne Nye
Ghana is preparing an anti-LGBTQIA+ bill. Since then, violence against LGBT persons in Ghana has increased dramatically. Almost every day an alleged gay, lesbian or trans person is attacked and mistreated. ‘Artivist’ Va-Bene is fighting with her life against this bill.
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Omar Braika
Ignorance is the enemy
LGBTQIA+ people from the Arab world often feel doubly demonised. In the Western world as Arabs, and in their own community as queer.