Pride Photo 2024
Welcome to the PRIDE PHOTO EXHIBITION 2024, organised by the PRIDE PHOTO Foundation. We are a Dutch organisation striving to increase the acceptance of sexual and gender diversity in the society.
For the 2024 contest, the Pride Photo Foundation received over 9,193 entries from around the world in response to its international open call. The jury, consisting of Mohamad Abdouni, Diego Moreno, Emma Waslander, Déborah Claire and Alejandra Ortiz, selected 2 winners.
INVISIBLE by Alexis won the Pride Photo Award 2024 in the Single Image category. Australian photographer Julie Sundberg was named winner in the Series category with her series “I Remember Everything.
This year’s exhibition acts as a visual love letter to queer resilience. A collection of images that provide a glimpse into the unique and beautiful worlds of queer lives, bodies, identities, and stories, from around the world. In creating this exhibition, author, activist and curator Alejandra Ortiz, used the opportunity to explore her own understanding of what it means to be queer.
‘Queer is everything that deviates from the rigid binary standards of today’s society,’ writes Ortiz. The collection of powerful and complex photo-series’ and striking single images creates a multifaceted representation of a vastly diverse community. This exhibition celebrates love, and the importance of being true to oneself, and sheds light on the many challenges faced by the LGBTQIA+ community in the protection of their basic human rights globally, with images from countries like Australia, Chile, South Africa, and Canada.
Winner single image: Invisible by Alexis
Winner series: I Remember Everything by Julie Sundberg
Constance Koningsberger
Body
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
BODY is a project by Constance Koningsberger, examining her personal experience, and self-perception around the stigmatisation of being fat.
Quetzal Maucci
By the Time She Grows Up
Exhibition Selection Stories
2024
Quetzal Maucci’s long-term project BY THE TIME SHE GROWS UP presents a personal exploration of her own family structure. Born in the USA, Quetzal is the daughter of two queer women who migrated from Peru and Argentina respectively. Their names are Flavia and Lucrecia - for Quetzal ‘Mami y Mamú’. In recent years, a record number of laws actively targeting LGBTQIA+ rights have been introduced across the United States. This marks a pronounced acceleration in discriminatory legislation and rhetoric in the U.S. BY THE TIME SHE GROWS UP offers a heartwarming and reaffirming representation of what family truly means, and...
Arianne Clément
Chloé
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
This is a picture of Chloé when she was 72-years-old. Chloé had begun her transition at the age of 67. Chloé passed away in early 2024. She was extremely proud of being the woman that she was, a strong voice in the community and an avid activist for transgender rights. Audio Tours of this entry Entry Audio Tour by Alejandra Ortiz, curator of this year's exhibition. Pride Photo Fundation · Audio Tour 2024 - EN - Arianne Clément, Chloé - By ALEJANDRA ORTIZ Project Audio Tour door Anne Fleur Schipper, journalist, programma- en podcastmaker. Pride Photo Fundation · Audio Tour...
Chris & Marjan
Clementine Willow
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
After having experienced homelessness for two years, Clementine Willow proudly poses in her home in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Having finally gained access to a house with the support of local healthcare organisations, Clementine is an advocate for change as she reflects on the trauma and hardship she experienced being unhoused as a disabled and LGBTQIA+ person. The number of homeless youth, aged between 18 and 27 in the Netherlands, has increased in recent years. Only a handful of shelters are accessible to disabled people, and even fewer are dedicated to the safety of LGBTQIA+ individuals. This project brings to light...
Eugenio Bosco
Cultivating Diversity
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
CULTIVATING DIVERSITY presents an artistic exploration of queer identity in a rapidly changing world. The works that make up this series are generated through a controlled feedback loop between the photographer’s own work and AI-generated imagery.AI models are trained through data, which is accumulated from images, texts, and other input provided by its users and developers. This offers a container of systematised knowledge that can reflect the perception of diverse sexual identities among a wider public. In CULTIVATING DIVERSITY Bosco seeks to unravel new and unexpressed concepts of queer sexuality. Audio Tours of this entry Entry Audio Tour by Alejandra...
Cansu Yildiran
Fathom
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
FATHOM presents a series of staged documentary photographs honouring the stories of LGBTQIA+ individuals who have lost their lives in fatal homophobic attacks. Yıldıran works with individuals from the LGBTQIA+ currently living in Turkey to create these powerful images. Yıldıran draws on modes of non-normative storytelling, and through their practice creates a connection between those who have been killed, and those who survive, visually representing the struggles and very real danger that the LGBTQIA+ community continues to face. FATHOM is an exploration of queer identities, and a testament to resilience. Audio Tours of this entry Entry Audio Tour by Alejandra...
Martha Tadesse
House of La Glamour
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
HOUSE OF LA GLAMOUR is a photographic essay that follows Imhaku Peters, founder of the House of La Glamour, in Johannesburg, South Africa. For his safety, Imhaku migrated from Nigeria, where homosexuality is criminalised and punishable by death, to South Africa, where he found that LGBTQIA+ people from various African Nations had sought refuge. He created the House of La Glamour with the intention of helping young LGBTQIA+ migrants to express themselves within the ballroom scene in Johannesburg. Imhaku regularly takes part in the ballroom events, and organises regular drag performances. He takes care of the ‘children’ of the house...
Julie Sundberg
I Remember Everything
2nd prize, Winner Stories
2024
This is a story spanning my 35 year relationship with Danny Abood. It is about identity and gender, addiction, ageing and illness, love, loss and death.
Alexis
Invisible
1st prize Singles
2024
In the margins of the margins of Putin’s Russia, queer bodies exist and dare to stay true to themselves. A couple share a tender embrace in a field, only feeling safe when they are far away from civilisation.
Jairo Nicolás Bernal
Love Can Save Us
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
In LOVE CAN SAVE US the artist Jairo Nicolas Bernal presents us with a personal photograph from his archive, one which he now reflects on as his first ever photographic intervention. In the image, Jairo’s mother stands in the courtyard of their family home in Ipiales, Narińo, Colombia. Beside her is a part of the image that is cutout - an intervention - in which Bernal had chosen to remove himself from the photograph in an attempt to disappear.
Asafe Ghalib
Queer Immigrants
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
QUEER IMMIGRANTS is a photographic series that acts as reclamation of space, an affirmation of identity, and an ode to the migrant members of the LGBTQIA+ community living within the United Kingdom. Ghalib explores modes of survival, self-expression and joy through their photographic practice, making use of traditional photography techniques reminiscent of fashion and early portrait photography. By working in collaboration with friends and fellow artists, Ghalib confronts societal expectations, and fosters expressions of identity among their community. Entry Audio Tour by Alejandra Ortiz, curator of this year's exhibition. Pride Photo Fundation · Audio Tour 2024 - EN - Asafe...
Carla Yovane
Waltz Time
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
WALTZ TIME is a photographic essay that offers a glimpse into the hidden moments shared between male sex workers and their long-term male clients. This series is captured in hotel rooms around Plaza de Armas in Santiago - Chile’s capital.
Roman Manfredi
We/Us
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
WE/US is an intergenerational photography and oral history project that celebrates the undocumented presence of butches and studs from working-class backgrounds within the British landscape. The project explores the experience of female masculinity through the structures of class and race across the United Kingdom, and captures the vast diversity of gender expression within the community. The term ‘butch’ generally refers to masculine-presenting lesbians and originated from the working class bar culture in the US in the 1940s and 50s. ‘Stud’ is a more recent term, coming from working-class Black lesbian communities in the US, now taken up by Black masculine-presenting...
Marika Kochiashvili
When I Grow Up I’m Gonna Kiss You
Exhibition Selection, Special mention Curators Choice
2024
WHEN I GROW UP I’M GONNA KISS YOU is a project that aims to take back control of the moral policing that the photographer Marika Kochiashvili experienced when growing up in Tbilisi, Georgia. Using nudity throughout her artistic practice, her focus is on the stories that emerge through gesture, posture and choreography, blurring the lines of binary ideas around gender identity. Audio Tours of this entry Entry Audio Tour by Alejandra Ortiz, curator of this year's exhibition. Pride Photo Fundation · Audio Tour 2024 - EN - Marika Kochiashvili, When I Grow Up Im Gonna Kiss You - By ALEJANDRA...
Karwan Karim
Women in Pain
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
WOMEN IN PAIN is a series of portraits representing Kurdish Iraqi women while preserving their anonymity, and in so doing shares an overarching testament on the frequency of honour crimes, and gendered family violence, within this community. Since the 1991 uprising of the Kurdish region, which spans a number of different internationally-recognised countries, including Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq, more than 20,000 Kurdish women have been murdered. ‘Honour crimes’ refer to acts of violence and murder, committed within a family by members assigned male at birth, against those assigned female at birth that are perceived to have ‘dishonoured’ patriarchal societal...