Exploring queer lives, histories, and futures through photography.
Throughout 2025, Pride Photo presents a series of exhibitions that center queer experiences, voices, and communities from across the world. Each exhibition offers a different perspective, on belonging, heritage, and visibility, yet all share a commitment to amplifying LGBTQIA+ stories through photography.
Queer Havens
12 July – 10 August 2025
Meterhuis, Westerpark Amsterdam
Presented in collaboration with World Press Photo
During the summer of 2025, Pride Photo presented Queer Havens, an exhibition exploring what safety means for LGBTQIA+ communities across different cultures and contexts. Co-curated with World Press Photo, the project brought together twelve photographic stories—six from the Pride Photo collection and six from the World Press Photo archive—that illuminated how queer people build and sustain spaces of care, love, and community.
Since the 1970s, queer communities worldwide have created havens—both physical and emotional—where people can express themselves freely, connect with others, and find belonging. These “safe spaces” remain essential in the face of discrimination and exclusion. Queer Havens celebrated these spaces in all their diversity: from chosen families and intimate relationships to acts of remembrance and resistance.
The exhibition was shown both outdoors in Amsterdam’s Westerpark and indoors at Het Meterhuisje during the Amsterdam Pride season. A public program accompanied the exhibition, and a digital version remains accessible via worldpressphoto.org.
As an organization dedicated to amplifying LGBTQIA+ voices through photography, Pride Photo was proud to contribute to this reflection on queer resilience, visibility, and solidarity.
Queer Havens was part of World Press Photo’s 70th anniversary program and made possible with the support of Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Cultuurfonds, and Stadsdeel West.
Legacies of Identity: Queer Histories of Third Genders
17 July – 24 August 2025
Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam
Presented in collaboration with Melkweg Expo
In the summer of 2025, Pride Photo presented Legacies of Identity: Queer Histories of Third Genders, an exhibition exploring rich and longstanding traditions of gender diversity across the world.
From the Muxes in Mexico to the Waria in Indonesia, third and trans gender identities are neither new nor marginal—they are deeply rooted in local histories, spirituality, and community life. Legacies of Identity foregrounded these lived realities, challenging colonial and binary narratives of gender.
Through the work of photographers Nelson Morales, Jairo Nicolás Bernal, Sumi Anjuman, Vaughan Larsen, Supranav Dash, JeanPaul Paula, Yoppy Pieter, and Su Cassiano, the exhibition explored themes such as colonialism, class, spirituality, and gender expression. Each portrait and story was an act of care, continuity, and resistance.
At a moment when queer and trans lives face renewed threats through legislation and censorship, Legacies of Identity honored histories of survival, dignity, and belonging. Together with Melkweg Expo, Pride Photo affirmed the importance of protecting queer cultural heritage and amplifying voices that are too often overlooked.
This exhibition was supported by the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, the Culture Fund, and the Pictoright Fund.
Life Stories
1 – 30 November 2025
Breda, The Netherlands
In collaboration with BredaPhoto
Locations: Clublokaal, Chassé Theater, and Breda City Center
Closing the year, Pride Photo presents Life Stories—a month-long exhibition celebrating queer lives through photography, storytelling, and intergenerational dialogue.
Bringing together five powerful series by internationally recognized artists—Mackenzie Calle, Andrés Pérez, Chiara Fabbro, Julie Sundberg, and the Mit Euren Spuren Collective—alongside new works by photography students, Life Stories explores identity, memory, and resilience. The exhibition includes both indoor and outdoor presentations, featuring a city-centre installation of the Pride Photo Award 2025 winners.
From personal archives to imagined futures, from everyday joy to structural adversity, these works illuminate the complexity and strength of queer existence. Each image is a testament to visibility, dignity, and the courage to live authentically.
Free and open to everyone, Life Stories spans multiple locations across Breda. Alongside the exhibitions, the program includes artist talks, workshops, film screenings, and guided tours—inviting visitors to reflect on the diversity and vitality of queer lives, past and present.
About Pride Photo
Pride Photo is dedicated to celebrating and strengthening LGBTQIA+ visibility through photography. By curating exhibitions, educational programs, and international collaborations, we create platforms where queer stories are seen, shared, and valued. These exhibitions continue our commitment to building spaces of connection, remembrance, and pride.