Pride Photo Award 2019
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.
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.
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. In 2015 she was baptised as Samantha Aurelia Vicenta Flores García, a lifelong dream.
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 Eli. We developed a strong and sincere bond, also with her family, based on the awareness of our common battle for the right of being yourself.
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?
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.
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 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.
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.
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 study in Moscow.
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 with them as a way of visually documenting and reflecting on these immensely intimate first encounters.
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.
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.