Pride Photo Award 2019
2nd prize Singles
Micha Serraf
Another day as greatness
The image was taken with queer people who pass as men, in an exploration of masculinity, African-ness and the construction and deconstruction of identity, belonging, blackness, queerness, and masculinity.
2nd prize Singles
Keeping Touch
Self-exploration as a transgender femme through the act of photography
2nd prize Stories
Carloman Macidiano Cespedes Riojas
Immigration LGBTQ in Buenos Aires
In Peru and especially in the provinces, being gay is a taboo, there is a lot of discrimination, so in 2005 I was able to travel to Buenos Aires. Since 2017 I have been photographing boys residing in Buenos Aires, mostly from bordering countries and Latin America, their stories have similarities to mine ... we all arrive in search of freedom.
2nd prize Stories
Vianney Le Caer
Beirut Sun Tanners
This photo story series explores the sunbathing community of the American University of Beirut Beach, Lebanon, located beside the Corniche, a famous seaside promenade in downtown Beirut.
2nd prize Gender
Jean-François Bouchard
Transpose
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.
2nd prize Theme: Unique
Ugo Woatzi
Chameleon
Chameleon is a photo essay about visibility and stands as a conversation between masculinities and spaces. Looking beyond heteronormative confines the still frames evoke the love, fear, joy and safe environments of people that exist outside these sometimes suffocating constructs.
2nd prize Insiders / Outsiders
Vincent Gouriou
Mélanie & Her Family
Mélanie is posing with her boyfriend, her father, her step-mother and her sister. She's in the middle of a sexual reassignment. She is highly supported by her family, her friends and her boyfriend. She accepted to participate in this project as an activist gesture to put in the light the life of transgender people.
2nd prize Stories of Love and Pride
Marika Puicha
Solo
Imane, 19, lives in Casablanca and is a lesbian. She says she is “A lesbian proud of herself!” She has never hidden her homosexuality
2nd prize Open
Corinne Mariaud
Flower Beauty Boys
Portraits of young men obsessed by their appearance and controlling their image on social networks, looking for physical perfection, retouching their face with coloured lenses, makeup and even surgery.
2nd prize Open
Jörg Meier
Nod. East of Eden.
When expelled by God, Kain went to the Land of Nod, east of Eden (Genesis 4:16). Nod stems from nad: restless, wandering.