Mariam Magsi
Rebels at Heart
Exhibition Selection
2022
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.
Şener Yılmaz Aslan
Refugee Trans Guest House
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
Where do you find refuge when there is no place in society for who you are and who you love as a person? This series shows a sheltered way of living and the impact it has on the road of life.
Suzanne Reitsma
Replace She with He
Special mention
2015
In the Netherlands, a country with more than 17 million inhabitants, 100 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year.
AliReza Goudarzi
Resistance
Exhibition Selection Singles
2023
Ardavan is 27 years old and he is gay. He lived in Iran before being threatened with death by his family for revealing his gender identity. He is forced to seek refuge in Turkey to save his life and find a safe country.
Geloy Concepcion
Reynas Delas Flores: Manila’s Golden Gays
Special mention
2016
You might have come across some of us amidst the stream of people that are out and about in the streets of Pasay Manila - We are the Golden Gays.
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.
Claudia Deganutti
RUTH E BILLIE
Stories
2025
Ruth & Billie portrays the realities of two siblings on a journey of self-actualisation, as they grow into their sexual and gender identities whilst growing up within a conservative Catholic family in a rural town in Italy. This series examines how dogma and tradition influence our understanding and acceptance of sexual and gender identity and diversity. Billie is 18-years-old, and although they were assigned female at birth, they identify closer to male in terms of gender identity. Ruth is 22-years-old and identifies as female, and as pansexual, which means she finds herself attracted to people of all gender identities. Both...
Tamta Gokadze
SADNESS AND FEAR
Singles
2025
Crowds gather to show their respects at the funeral of Kesaria Abramidze. Kesaria, a 37-year-old Georgian trans woman, was found murdered in her apartment on the night of September 18, 2024. Kesaria was an established model, actress and public figure, and was widely seen as a trailblazer for Georgia’s trans and LGBTQIA+ rights. In 2024, global data reveals that more than 350 transgender and gender-diverse people have been murdered. The news of Kesaria’s death came just one day after Georgia's Parliament passed a controversial anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation. This law restricts LGBTQIA+ rights to non-discrimination, health care and education, freedom of speech...
Bénédicte Desrus
Samantha Flores, a woman of her own making
1st prize Stories
2016
Samantha Flores - now 84 - came out as a transgender woman in Mexico City 23 years ago, though she wasn’t able to officially change her gender identity until recently. In 2015 she was baptised as Samantha Aurelia Vicenta Flores García, a lifelong dream.
B. Proud
Say Their Names
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
Deze fotos toont de locaties waar een transgender persoon is vermoord en zijn een eerbetoon aan degenen die zijn vermoord / This series shows different locations where transgender people have been murdered, paying homage to those who have lost their lives
Elena Anosova
Section
3rd prize Stories
2016
The project is about women’s prisons is a part of a trilogy that is centered around the lives of women in closed institutions. The impulse of research of such communities arose in a reflection of my teenage period spent at the closed rehabilitation boarding school. I spent a few months, working in several prisons for women in the Siberia.
Lana Yanovska
Selective Perception
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
Yanovska's serie speelt met relaties, seksualiteit, en onze percepties. Wat zie jij als je naar de koppels kijkt? Bij geen van deze set foto's weten we welk koppel authentiek is, en welk in scène is gezet.
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.
David Těšínský
Soccer Love
Exhibition Selection
2022
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.
Sarah Mei Herman
Solace
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
In China gay-sexuality is not illegal anymore but it is still unaccepted by society and the older generations. Hardly any of the young people I met and photographed for this project are able to speak openly to their parents about their sexual preferences.
Marika Puicha
Solo
2nd prize Stories of Love and Pride
2015
Imane, 19, lives in Casablanca and is a lesbian. She says she is “A lesbian proud of herself!” She has never hidden her homosexuality
Sumi Anjuman
Somewhere Else Than Here
1st prize, Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
Born into a strange universe where caged birds can sing but cannot fly, where our love is unloved, yet to die. Is everything untrue or are we?
Mackenzie Calle
The Gay Space Agency
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
To date, 600 people have been astronauts. None have flown into space as an openly LGBTQ+ person. The Gay Space Agency confronts the American Space program’s historical exclusion of openly queer astronauts and asks what American heroism looks like and who might be a part of future exploration.
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.
Haneem Christian
The Lovers
Winner Singles
2022
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.
Robert Siegelman
The Model and The Photographer
Exhibition Selection
2022
Exploitation is becoming more and more a hot topic in photography. Even more when it comes to the photography of minorities and unseen communities.
Lisa Großkopf
THE PHOTOSTUDIO
Stories
2025
THE PHOTO STUDIO is a long-running multi-medial series exploring the interplay between visual and aesthetic currents and their representation of societal norms. With a playful and experimental approach, Großkopf uses photography to examine and challenge contemporary social conditions. The Photo Studio takes aim at traditional family portraiture that often reinforce outdated gender roles. By setting up fictional photo studios in empty shop windows, Großkopf subverts expectations. Instead of images of nuclear families, and stereotypical portraits of binary gender ideals, Großkopf presents a refreshingly critical and feminist perspective. The work deconstructs gender roles, undermines conventional lifestyles, and champions diverse relationship models...
Alessio Maximilian Schroder
The Shape of Self (2014-2019)
Exhibition Selection
2022
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.
Kris Sanford
Through The Lens of Desire
3rd prize Open
2016
Relationships, real or imagined, are at the center of this work. Growing up queer, I searched for a history that spoke to me—included me.
Oded Wagenstein
Transparent Curtains – Exclusion as Experienced by Gay Elders
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
The five men pictured in this series, are all gay and over the age of seventy. We have talked for hours. About aging and dreams, love, exclusion, and fears, and out of these conversations, this series was formed.
Jean-François Bouchard
Transpose
2nd prize Gender
2015
By spending time with people at different stages of their transition, Bouchard discovered the vast complexity of the processes and transformations that female-to-males have had to undergo in their quest for physical and psychological self-alignment.
Yoppy Pieter
Transwoman : Between Color & Voice
Winner Stories
2022
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.
Melody Melamed
Two is One
3rd prize Gender
2015
Look deeply and you will see that man and woman are not seen as separate beings... In Two Is One, I challenge the role of gender by engaging with my subjects masculinity and femininity. Thus, creating an image where man is woman and woman is man...
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...
Melissa Ianniello
WISH IT WAS A COMING OUT
Stories
2025
Wish it Was a Coming Out is an ongoing long-term project portraying LGBTQIA+ senior citizens in Italy. For many of the people photographed, the shifts in legislation experienced over the past decades have directly impacted their lives and individual human rights. The history of LGBTQIA+ rights in Italy is marked by significant social, cultural, and legal turbulence. Albeit shifts towards greater acceptance and protection for LGBTQIA+ people in the early 21st century, the political rise of far-right and conservative parties has massively regressed the state of protection. As recently as 2021, Italy’s far-right parties voted against a law that would...
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...
Gian Cruz
You as Me
2nd prize Open
2016
This series of self-portraits serves both as counterpoint and compliment as to how the self is represented in our times—in the digital age, in the age of social media
Ohm Phanphiroj
YOU WILL BE THERE
Stories
2025
You Will Be There is a self-portrait series exploring issues of self, sexuality, and binary gender roles. By examining the relationship between the self and others in an intimate context, both privately and publicly, Phanphiroj aims to engage in dialogues around race, gender identity, roleplay, seduction, longing, and acceptance. Phanphiroj reflects on these portraits “reveal my personal desire for an openness and a search to understand not only who and what I am, but how the world understands me, regards me, and judges me.” This project is not only a personal response to a desire to understand himself, but also...
Rowan Renee
Z
1st prize Open
2016
Z (2015) is a collection of nude ambrotype portraits working with transgender, cisgender, and a spectrum of genderqueer and gender non-conforming individuals.
Bradley Secker
كتمان / Kütmaan
Exhibition Selection
2022
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.