Pride Photo 2015
Danielle Villasana
A Light Inside
3rd prize Open
2015
In Peru, a country with a highly machismo, conservative, religious and transphobic culture, transgender women are extremely marginalized and discriminated by society.
Chiara Luxardo
Burma Love
3rd prize Theme: Unique
2019
In Myanmar (Burma), same sex marriage, and even relationships, are still illegal. While same sex marriage or civil partnerships are a distant hope, this series dreams of a revolution.
Frederic Noy
Ekifire
3rd prize Insiders / Outsiders
2016
In Kigali, B., transexual and transvestite opens the shutter of her room of this tiny house. Her livelihood comes from prostitution, and often takes different narcotics which help her to cope with her marginalised existence During a party in the lounge of a girlfriend's house, C. dances while sipping a Primus, while A. watches upon them. The two friends survive in Kigali thanks to prostitution as it is extremely difficult or even impossible to find a job as soon as you are identified as LGBT. "I don’t sleep with anyone for money but for pleasure. This is what makes me...
Vincent Gouriou
Family Time
3rd prize Singles
2015
This series is showing the life of a couple: Anne and Véronique, living in Brest, Brittany (France).
Gazi Nafis Ahmed
Inner Face
3rd prize Stories of Love and Pride
2015
Any discussion around sex and sexuality is taboo in my country. It is a family-oriented, moderate society with strong economic class structure.
Marc Ohrem-Leclef
Jugaad – Of Intimacy and Love
3rd prize Stories
2019
Friends Chotu and Rajan leaving the temple Soon after beginning my research to prepare 'Jugaad-Of intimacy and Love' I realised that my attempts to locate familiar identities in the public gestures rooted in India's homosocial culture would only stand in the way of embracing the many subtle layers of intimacies my collaborators eventually began sharing with me. QUOTE: “ What we feel is, when we hold hands and walk, the love that we have gets strengthened even further. Our love becomes deeper and we establish trust in each other and build upon it through this." Gaurav. For 'Jugaad-Of Intimacy and...
Koen Suidgeest
Paola
3rd prize Singles
2019
Paola was in a coma for three months and it took her nine months to leave the hospital, during which all she wanted to do was take her own life. Miraculously, she has recovered to being loving and positive human being with an incredible sense of humor.
Elena Anosova
Section
3rd prize Stories
2016
The project is about women’s prisons is a part of a trilogy that is centered around the lives of women in closed institutions. The impulse of research of such communities arose in a reflection of my teenage period spent at the closed rehabilitation boarding school. I spent a few months, working in several prisons for women in the Siberia.
Anja Matthes
The House of Bangy Cunt
3rd prize Open
2019
The underground Kiki Ballroom scene in New York City is a community organized by LGBTQ youth (14-25 years) of color, many of whom were cast out by their families and communities.
Kris Sanford
Through The Lens of Desire
3rd prize Open
2016
Relationships, real or imagined, are at the center of this work. Growing up queer, I searched for a history that spoke to me—included me.
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...