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.
Marton Monus
WE ARE (HOME)
2026
We are (home) documents the shifting political landscape surrounding LGBTQIA+ rights in Hungary. The series traces the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals in Budapest at a time of increasing state restriction, alongside the scale of public support at Budapest Pride 2025. Over sixteen years of Prime Minister Orbán’s rule, LGBTQIA+ rights have steadily eroded. In March 2025, parliament passed a law allowing police to ban Pride marches, marking a form of institutional exclusion within the European Union. In response, the 30th Budapest Pride in June 2025 drew record attendance. Through portraits and testimonies, We are (home) reflects on how visibility, care,...
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.