Pride Photo Award 2020
Exhibition Selection Stories
B. Proud
Say Their Names
Deze fotos toont de locaties waar een transgender persoon is vermoord en zijn een eerbetoon aan degenen die zijn vermoord / This series shows different locations where transgender people have been murdered, paying homage to those who have lost their lives
Exhibition Selection Stories
Jörg Meier
Out There – Queer Farmers in Europe
There is an established LGBTQ+ community in the agricultural sector, and just like their straight colleagues, queer farmers tend to put their businesses first.
Exhibition Selection, Winner
Kennedi Carter
Nichelle Flexing
Nichelle is iemand waar de Kennedi Carter mee bevriend is, die zich mannelijk presenteert. Ze is een bodybuilder en heeft een absoluut verbluffende lichaamsbouw.
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?
Exhibition Selection, Special mention Singles
DeLovie Kwagala
Anna
De foto is onderdeel van de serie The Quingdom Project ~ In Transition, die een inkijkje in de queer-gemeenschap van Oeganda.
Exhibition Selection, Special mention Stories
Martin Wannam
Amores Postmodernos
Amores Postmodernos a photographic series that aims to show pleasure in a queer lifestyle. I use queer subjects from Guatemala City, in scenes with a contemporary narrative base of social media, sex, gender and sexuality, with layers of religious symbolism.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Oded Wagenstein
Transparent Curtains – Exclusion as Experienced by Gay Elders
The five men pictured in this series, are all gay and over the age of seventy. We have talked for hours. About aging and dreams, love, exclusion, and fears, and out of these conversations, this series was formed.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Lana Yanovska
Selective Perception
Yanovska's serie speelt met relaties, seksualiteit, en onze percepties. Wat zie jij als je naar de koppels kijkt? Bij geen van deze set foto's weten we welk koppel authentiek is, en welk in scène is gezet.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Şener Yılmaz Aslan
Refugee Trans Guest House
Where do you find refuge when there is no place in society for who you are and who you love as a person? This series shows a sheltered way of living and the impact it has on the road of life.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Ksenia Kuleshova
Ordinary People
Several anti-gay laws have come into force in Russia in the past decade. The series shows a more realistic image of LGBTQ+ people, telling their own everyday stories of love and happiness.
Exhibition Selection Singles
Lee-Ann Olwage
#BlackDragMagic
De foto komt uit Olwage's fotoserie over het leven van Zwarte, queer, gender-nonconforme en transgender mensen in de townships van Kaapstad.
Exhibition Selection Singles
Kennedi Carter
Black Pride
In the image Black Pride, the intersections of Blackness and Queerness are visualised. Kennedi Carter shot this image in her hometown of Durham in North Carolina, US, just outside a Pride Festival.
Exhibition Selection
Kami Dubel
Kleurrijk ouder worden
For the series Colourful Ageing, photographer Kami Dubel and creative producer Nina van Rheenen portrayed residents of Amsterdam care organisation Cordaan. A statement, to celebrate that everyone can be themselves and can love whomever they want. This does not change when you are older or when there is a sudden need for care.
Exhibition Selection
Robert Andy Coombs
CripFag
The sexual experiences of (queer) people with physical disabilities are taboo. Photographer Robert Coombs breaks this taboo with his series 'CripFag'. A visual exploration of his own sexual and intimate adventures, full of romance, fantasies and kinks.
Exhibition Selection
Carlos Saavedra
Limpia
Every year, thousands of Colombians are selectively killed and displaced in so-called social cleansing campaigns. Pamphlets advertising "La Mano Negra " occupy public spaces in the country's poorest neighborhoods.
Exhibition Selection
Robert Siegelman
The Model and The Photographer
Exploitation is becoming more and more a hot topic in photography. Even more when it comes to the photography of minorities and unseen communities.
Exhibition Selection
PhotoPaul
“I am not an Ideology!” LGBTQ+ POLAND
Since the PiS party came to power in Poland, several anti-LGBT laws have been implemented in the country. In 2019, for example, some 30 different 'LGBT-free zones' were declared, where it was forbidden to preach the 'destructive LGBT ideology'.
Exhibition Selection
David Těšínský
Soccer Love
With his controversial photos, David Těšínský tries to dispel stereotypes and open people's eyes. Like the acceptance of homosexuality in sports, and specifically in professional football.
Exhibition Selection
Prins de Vos
Boys do cry
With this series, Prins wants to contribute to the emancipation of trans people, and also break the taboo on male vulnerability. This series shows that being vulnerable is also very positive and powerful, because: boys dó cry.
Exhibition Selection
Watsamon Tri-yasakda
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From kindergarten to university, all Thai pupils and students have to wear a uniform. It ensures unity among them, but also hegemony and class distinction. For boys, it is a male uniform, consisting of shorts, a military haircut and a shirt with a name and student ID number. Everyone is the same.
Exhibition Selection
Guangbo Li
Faceless Portraits
In 2019, Guangbo Li began to take private portraits of people who are currently perceived by Chinese society as ‘celebrities with huge followings’. These portraits are temporarily unseen and unpriced and lack faces which are highly recognizable masks and symbols. Guangbo Li presents these people only with their bodies and very little physical and material elements.
Exhibition Selection
Luiz Maximiano
Bruna
Bruna, a 21-years-old transgender woman was attacked by three men in the street at Sao Carlos, Brazil, in 26 February 2021."Die, fag!" they shouted, while stabbing Bruma with a kitchen knife and cutting off her ear and hair.
Exhibition Selection
Bradley Secker
كتمان / Kütmaan
Kütmaan is a collection of intimate portraits and daily-life documentary photographs about individuals displaced, and/or claiming asylum, based on their sexuality or gender identity, from more than 20 countries around the world. It is a decade-long project, which began in 2010 in Damascus, Syria.
Exhibition Selection
Alessio Maximilian Schroder
The Shape of Self (2014-2019)
Since the Indian Supreme Court recognised the Third Sex in 2014, the socio-economic position of the trans community has improved significantly. The project Shape of Self shows this through portraits of trans people from West Bengal.
Exhibition Selection
Mariam Magsi
Rebels at Heart
Rebels at Heart is a playful response to the stereotyping of certain people into boxes, labels and categories that lack nuance, and eventually end up denying them their full, complex humanity.
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
JeanPaul Paula
Nos Kultura
Jean-Paul Paula is a Dutch activist, stylist and artist. In this work, he shows the reunion with his parents after years of rejection. These photos are proof that things can get back on track.
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
crazinisT artisT
Anyie ne Nye
Ghana is preparing an anti-LGBTQIA+ bill. Since then, violence against LGBT persons in Ghana has increased dramatically. Almost every day an alleged gay, lesbian or trans person is attacked and mistreated. ‘Artivist’ Va-Bene is fighting with her life against this bill.
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
Omar Braika
Ignorance is the enemy
LGBTQIA+ people from the Arab world often feel doubly demonised. In the Western world as Arabs, and in their own community as queer.
Exhibition Selection Singles
Anne-Sophie Guillet
Force
I write on my skin, to make us both in tune. To make revolution my way. It's my own rebellion, my armor to protect me from the too harsh outside world. I write on my body and those of my peers. To heal and be healed. It is our secret little link. Behind our shells in perpetual transformation, we create small self-sufficient shelters.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Ilvy Njiokiktjien
I Don’t Want To Be Gay In This Ukraine
Right after the invasion of Ukraine members of the LGBTQI community fear for their future. They are thought to be among the designated targets of a Russian campaign to oppress sectors of the community, and names of LGBTQI activists have apparently appeared on Russian kill lists.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Chiara Fabbro
Invisible border
Dimitri was born in the small fishing village of Skála Sikaminéas, on the Greek island of Lesvos. At the age of 14, she told her parents that she was a girl. She struggled to be accepted throughout her life and experienced tough times, living in a mental institution during her childhood, followed by years of homelessness in Athens.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Clara Watt
The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values: A Protest
In February 2021, Accra's first LGBTQ+ Community space was raided and forcibly closed by local law enforcement, only a few weeks after its opening. While it often feels the world is progressing into a more socially accepting space for people based on sexual or gender identities, the events of February 2021 show that LGBTQ+ Ghanaians are being left behind.
Exhibition Selection Singles
Robin Yong
Havana Queen Story
Just a few years ago, Cuba would never have allowed the LGBT-friendly acts to exist in such broad visibility. A portrait of drag queen Salma before her show in the evening.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Sarah Mei Herman
Solace
In China gay-sexuality is not illegal anymore but it is still unaccepted by society and the older generations. Hardly any of the young people I met and photographed for this project are able to speak openly to their parents about their sexual preferences.
Exhibition Selection Singles
AliReza Goudarzi
Resistance
Ardavan is 27 years old and he is gay. He lived in Iran before being threatened with death by his family for revealing his gender identity. He is forced to seek refuge in Turkey to save his life and find a safe country.
Exhibition Selection Stories
RJ Sangosti
ClubQ
Leia-jhene Seals was performing at Club Q when a 22-year-old gunman entered the LGBTQ nightclub killing five people and injuring others. Seals hugs R.J. Lewis, who was was also at the nightclub, during a vigil at All Souls Unitarian Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Ziyu Wang
Go Get’Em Boy
In "Go get them, boy!" the audience takes on the role of the elders of the family to examine the image of manhood I have created for my father.
Exhibition Selection Singles
Mário Macilau
Kamana Felix
Gender equality in Mozambique, is one of the most complicated issues where people do not yet understand that it is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.
Exhibition Selection Stories
Mackenzie Calle
The Gay Space Agency
To date, 600 people have been astronauts. None have flown into space as an openly LGBTQ+ person. The Gay Space Agency confronts the American Space program’s historical exclusion of openly queer astronauts and asks what American heroism looks like and who might be a part of future exploration.