• Group of gay men sharing a room in Kampala 2019 Keiji Fujimoto

1st prize Singles

Keiji Fujimoto

Group of gay men sharing a room in Kampala

They left their home towns in the countryside of Uganda after their parents discovered they were gay.

  • Muslim Pride Mariam Magsi

1st prize Singles

Mariam Magsi

Muslim Pride

You may veil us, but you will never dictate who we love. Our love transcends your intolerance. Our love is greater than your hate.

  • Our piety 2019 Nelson Morales
  • Statues 2019 Nelson Morales

1st prize Stories

Nelson Morales

Musas muxe

The Muxes are the third gender of the indigenous community of the isthmus of Oaxaca in Mexico, where the photographer was born.

1st prize Stories

Bénédicte Desrus

Samantha Flores, a woman of her own making

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....

1st prize Gender

Marika Puicha

Ella (She)

I started taking pictures of Eli when she was 10 years old. I came back in Madrid in 2015 and for two weeks I have lived in close contact with...

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  • Winner Series 2020 Sumi Anjuman Somewhere Else Than Here 15

1st prize, Exhibition Selection Stories

Sumi Anjuman

Somewhere Else Than Here

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?

  • Self Portrait as my Mother as a Cheerleader
  • Self Portrait as a Woman in the Hospital

1st prize Theme: Unique

Vaughan Larsen

Rites

In these self-portraits the photographer reenacts ceremonies from heteronormative, cisgendered culture. These photographs are direct parodies of moments their family members lived through.

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  • yanovska polarity 017 vik

1st prize Insiders / Outsiders

Lana Yanovska

Polarity

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...

  • Tatiana Vinogradova 1
  • Tatiana Vinogradova 6

1st prize Stories of Love and Pride

Tatiana Vinogradova

Days of Melancholy

This series of portraits is focused on the life of gay people in Russia. It is a visual tale of melancholy, loneliness and uncertainty about the future.

  • PN01a
  • PN01b

1st prize Extremely Normal

Irina Popova

Appt. 779

I was invited to stay in Apartment number 779 in 2008, when I was just back after the war in Georgia, and had nowhere to stay during my work and...

  • Self Portrait with Mo and Michael Berlin
  • Self Portrait with Christopher Amsterdam

1st prize Open

Mickey Aliosio

From Europe with Love

During a two-month backpacking trip through Europe in the spring of 2018 Mickey Aloisio photographed over 50 men in six cities. He found himself stepping in front of the lens...

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  • Renee Rowan 2

1st prize Open

Rowan Renee

Z

Z (2015) is a collection of nude ambrotype portraits working with transgender, cisgender, and a spectrum of genderqueer and gender non-conforming individuals.

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  • Eric Gyamfi2

1st prize Open

Eric Gyamfi

Asylum

ASYLUM is a series of mainly self-portraits that seeks to examine the contemporary African male sexuality against a backdrop of religion and tradition.