Pride Photo 2022
PhotoPaul
“I am not an Ideology!” LGBTQ+ POLAND
Exhibition Selection
2022
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'.
Lee-Ann Olwage
#BlackDragMagic
Exhibition Selection Singles
2020
De foto komt uit Olwage's fotoserie over het leven van Zwarte, queer, gender-nonconforme en transgender mensen in de townships van Kaapstad.
Watsamon Tri-yasakda
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Exhibition Selection
2022
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.
Martin Wannam
Amores Postmodernos
Exhibition Selection, Special mention Stories
2020
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.
DeLovie Kwagala
Anna
Exhibition Selection, Special mention Singles
2020
De foto is onderdeel van de serie The Quingdom Project ~ In Transition, die een inkijkje in de queer-gemeenschap van Oeganda.
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Anyie ne Nye
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2022
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.
Kennedi Carter
Black Pride
Exhibition Selection Singles
2020
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.
Constance Koningsberger
Body
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
BODY is a project by Constance Koningsberger, examining her personal experience, and self-perception around the stigmatisation of being fat.
Prins de Vos
Boys do cry
Exhibition Selection
2022
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.
Luiz Maximiano
Bruna
Exhibition Selection
2022
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.
Quetzal Maucci
By the Time She Grows Up
Exhibition Selection Stories
2024
Quetzal Maucci’s long-term project BY THE TIME SHE GROWS UP presents a personal exploration of her own family structure. Born in the USA, Quetzal is the daughter of two queer women who migrated from Peru and Argentina respectively. Their names are Flavia and Lucrecia - for Quetzal ‘Mami y Mamú’. In recent years, a record number of laws actively targeting LGBTQIA+ rights have been introduced across the United States. This marks a pronounced acceleration in discriminatory legislation and rhetoric in the U.S. BY THE TIME SHE GROWS UP offers a heartwarming and reaffirming representation of what family truly means, and...
Arianne Clément
Chloé
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
This is a picture of Chloé when she was 72-years-old. Chloé had begun her transition at the age of 67. Chloé passed away in early 2024. She was extremely proud of being the woman that she was, a strong voice in the community and an avid activist for transgender rights. Audio Tours of this entry Entry Audio Tour by Alejandra Ortiz, curator of this year's exhibition. Pride Photo Fundation · Audio Tour 2024 - EN - Arianne Clément, Chloé - By ALEJANDRA ORTIZ Project Audio Tour door Anne Fleur Schipper, journalist, programma- en podcastmaker. Pride Photo Fundation · Audio Tour...
Chris & Marjan
Clementine Willow
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
After having experienced homelessness for two years, Clementine Willow proudly poses in her home in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Having finally gained access to a house with the support of local healthcare organisations, Clementine is an advocate for change as she reflects on the trauma and hardship she experienced being unhoused as a disabled and LGBTQIA+ person. The number of homeless youth, aged between 18 and 27 in the Netherlands, has increased in recent years. Only a handful of shelters are accessible to disabled people, and even fewer are dedicated to the safety of LGBTQIA+ individuals. This project brings to light...
RJ Sangosti
ClubQ
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
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.
Robert Andy Coombs
CripFag
Exhibition Selection
2022
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.
Eugenio Bosco
Cultivating Diversity
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
CULTIVATING DIVERSITY presents an artistic exploration of queer identity in a rapidly changing world. The works that make up this series are generated through a controlled feedback loop between the photographer’s own work and AI-generated imagery.AI models are trained through data, which is accumulated from images, texts, and other input provided by its users and developers. This offers a container of systematised knowledge that can reflect the perception of diverse sexual identities among a wider public. In CULTIVATING DIVERSITY Bosco seeks to unravel new and unexpressed concepts of queer sexuality. Audio Tours of this entry Entry Audio Tour by Alejandra...
Guangbo Li
Faceless Portraits
Exhibition Selection
2022
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.
Cansu Yildiran
Fathom
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
FATHOM presents a series of staged documentary photographs honouring the stories of LGBTQIA+ individuals who have lost their lives in fatal homophobic attacks. Yıldıran works with individuals from the LGBTQIA+ currently living in Turkey to create these powerful images. Yıldıran draws on modes of non-normative storytelling, and through their practice creates a connection between those who have been killed, and those who survive, visually representing the struggles and very real danger that the LGBTQIA+ community continues to face. FATHOM is an exploration of queer identities, and a testament to resilience. Audio Tours of this entry Entry Audio Tour by Alejandra...
Anne-Sophie Guillet
Force
Exhibition Selection Singles
2023
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.
Ziyu Wang
Go Get’Em Boy
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
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.
Robin Yong
Havana Queen Story
Exhibition Selection Singles
2023
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.
Martha Tadesse
House of La Glamour
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
HOUSE OF LA GLAMOUR is a photographic essay that follows Imhaku Peters, founder of the House of La Glamour, in Johannesburg, South Africa. For his safety, Imhaku migrated from Nigeria, where homosexuality is criminalised and punishable by death, to South Africa, where he found that LGBTQIA+ people from various African Nations had sought refuge. He created the House of La Glamour with the intention of helping young LGBTQIA+ migrants to express themselves within the ballroom scene in Johannesburg. Imhaku regularly takes part in the ballroom events, and organises regular drag performances. He takes care of the ‘children’ of the house...
Ilvy Njiokiktjien
I Don’t Want To Be Gay In This Ukraine
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
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.
Omar Braika
Ignorance is the enemy
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2022
LGBTQIA+ people from the Arab world often feel doubly demonised. In the Western world as Arabs, and in their own community as queer.
Chiara Fabbro
Invisible border
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
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.
Mário Macilau
Kamana Felix
Exhibition Selection Singles
2023
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.
Kami Dubel
Kleurrijk ouder worden
Exhibition Selection
2022
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.
Adrien Selbert
La Creole
Exhibition Selection Stories
2023
In a world that tends to shut down under the influence of pandemics and the return of conservatism, La Creole remind France of the diversity of its children.
Zuzu Valla
Lady Mercury
Exhibition Selection Singles
2023
Lady Mercury is fierce, intelligent and powerful queen. Dedicated to her work, Lady Mercury can make you gag for more... Her moves are always on point and she's turning heads wherever she goes. She adore her loving fans and can surprise you with her witt and sass.
Carlos Saavedra
Limpia
Exhibition Selection
2022
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.
Jairo Nicolás Bernal
Love Can Save Us
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
In LOVE CAN SAVE US the artist Jairo Nicolas Bernal presents us with a personal photograph from his archive, one which he now reflects on as his first ever photographic intervention. In the image, Jairo’s mother stands in the courtyard of their family home in Ipiales, Narińo, Colombia. Beside her is a part of the image that is cutout - an intervention - in which Bernal had chosen to remove himself from the photograph in an attempt to disappear.
Kennedi Carter
Nichelle Flexing
Exhibition Selection, Winner
2020
Nichelle is iemand waar de Kennedi Carter mee bevriend is, die zich mannelijk presenteert. Ze is een bodybuilder en heeft een absoluut verbluffende lichaamsbouw.
JeanPaul Paula
Nos Kultura
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2022
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.
Ksenia Kuleshova
Ordinary People
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
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.
Jörg Meier
Out There – Queer Farmers in Europe
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
There is an established LGBTQ+ community in the agricultural sector, and just like their straight colleagues, queer farmers tend to put their businesses first.
Asafe Ghalib
Queer Immigrants
Exhibition Selection Curators Choice
2024
QUEER IMMIGRANTS is a photographic series that acts as reclamation of space, an affirmation of identity, and an ode to the migrant members of the LGBTQIA+ community living within the United Kingdom. Ghalib explores modes of survival, self-expression and joy through their photographic practice, making use of traditional photography techniques reminiscent of fashion and early portrait photography. By working in collaboration with friends and fellow artists, Ghalib confronts societal expectations, and fosters expressions of identity among their community. Entry Audio Tour by Alejandra Ortiz, curator of this year's exhibition. Pride Photo Fundation · Audio Tour 2024 - EN - Asafe...
Mariam Magsi
Rebels at Heart
Exhibition Selection
2022
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.
Şener Yılmaz Aslan
Refugee Trans Guest House
Exhibition Selection Stories
2020
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.
AliReza Goudarzi
Resistance
Exhibition Selection Singles
2023
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.