Jörg Meier
Nod. East of Eden.
2nd prize Open
2015
When expelled by God, Kain went to the Land of Nod, east of Eden (Genesis 4:16). Nod stems from nad: restless, wandering.
JeanPaul Paula
Nos Kultura
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2022
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.
Ksenia Kuleshova
Ordinary People
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
Several anti-gay laws have come into force in Russia in the past decade. The series shows a more realistic image of LGBTQ+ people, telling their own everyday stories of love and happiness.
Jörg Meier
Out There – Queer Farmers in Europe
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
There is an established LGBTQ+ community in the agricultural sector, and just like their straight colleagues, queer farmers tend to put their businesses first.
Koen Suidgeest
Paola
3rd prize Singles
2019
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.
Seungwook Yang
Play Toy
Winner
2019
The series Play Toy refers to the magazine Playboy. The photographer created gay bedroom scenes with various toys and took pictures of them.
Lana Yanovska
Polarity
1st prize Insiders / Outsiders
2016
Androgyny scares, baffles and fascinates at the same time. Androgynous people live between the polarities of a binary society: visually they fit neither the female nor male stereotype. Their dual natures coexist in each world like cross-faded images contained in one frame. Separating them into two classic genders makes this polarity visible and present while mirroring back the viewer's norms and stereotypes.
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...
Mari Sarai
RAYNE, SHILOH, GABRIELE
2026
Rayne and Gabriel, a transgender couple pictured in their home in Queens, New York, with their daughter Shiloh. Since 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump has introduced a series of policies targeting transgender people, including restrictions on gender-affirming care and an executive order defining sex in binary terms, effectively denying the existence of trans, non-binary, and intersex people. These measures, alongside escalating anti-trans rhetoric, have contributed to a broader climate of hostility and exclusion. With this family portrait, the photographer Mari Sarai offers a message of encouragement to trans and genderqueer people who wish to build families, holding space for the...
Vincent Wechselberger
READY
Stories
2025
READY offers an honest series of portraits around contemporary queer sex work, through the photographer Wechselberger’s own relationship to the industry. Wechselberger writes, “When I was 18, I first received an offer for ‘pocket money’ online – for sexual services. Soon after, I moved to Berlin and immersed myself in a new world of dates and clients, many of whom became regulars. Through sex work, I experienced new forms of freedom. I reinvented myself. I let go of preconceived societal notions about how I should live my life. A central aim of this series is to re-frame how we think...
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.
Nana Akua Agyeibea Asare-Boye
SASSO
2026
Sasso explores queer expression and belonging in Ghana through intimate portraits of friends, lovers, and chosen family, creating a shared space between the artist and their collaborators. The work reflects on how identity is shaped through gesture, styling, and everyday performance. Sasso takes its title from a Ga word (a language spoken by the Gas in Southern Ghana) that was historically used for gender-nonconforming men. Within this series, Agyeibea creates images that centre agency, presence, and the complexity of queer life in Ghana. In a context where same-sex relations remain criminalised in Ghana, and where recent legislation has sought to...
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
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?
Adam Han-Chun Lin
SONDER
2026
Sonder focuses on relationships between male family members in their homes, and examines how masculinities are expressed, negotiated, and reimagined within the family home. Blending documentary photography with subtle staged interventions, Han-Chun Lin collaborated with ten families, transforming their homes into intimate stages where the boundary between performance and reality dissolves. The home is a site of contradiction, emotionally intimate yet historically structured by tradition, silence, and expectation. Often coded as a feminine space, it stands in contrast to the arenas where masculinity is typically performed such as workplaces, sports fields, or public institutions. Sonder challenges these binaries and reveals...
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.
George Ramos
THE LOSS
2026
The Loss reflects on the photographer’s experience of sexual violence and the lasting impact of silence and memory. Returning to the site of the assault years later, Ramos uses photography and graphic intervention to map this experience and open it toward shared dialogue. Developed through conversations with other LGBTQIA+ survivors, The Loss expands beyond the personal, holding space for shared experiences of violence, silence, and survival. Combining staged and documentary images with interventions using Google Maps, the series traces how trauma reshapes space and memory.
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.