Pride Photo Award Edition 2012

Pride Photo Award 2012 was a rich edition with entries ranging from documentary and portraiture to performance and conceptual photography. Photos could be entered in four categories: Documentary, Gender, Open and the 2013 theme category ‘Chameleons / Double Life’.

Out of 1,678 entries the international jury awarded the main prize to a photo from the series ‘Gender as a Performance’ by Dutch photoghrapher Chris Rijksen. The series reveals gender as a social construction; a performance rather than a biological fact. Chris Rijksen, student at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, was one of 209 participating photographers from 40 different countries.

2012 Jury

Pride Photo Award is proud to present the members of the 2012 jury. The photos were taken by Janus van den Eijnden at the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam on Tuesday the 18th of July 2012 when the jury was in session to select the winning photos. Jury chairman Christian Caujolle (France), started his career as a journalist and chief photo [...]

List of all winners 2012

The winners of the 2012 edition were announced on the 19th of July 2012. The international jury selected 12 winners including the winner of the Pride Photo Award 2012: the photo Gender as a Performance by Chris Rijken which is featured on our home page A special mention was given to three series: 1) "Hiv, long term survivors" by photographer [...]

Media debate 2012

On October 22th a special edition of the bimonthly photography program De Donkere Kamer was devoted to Pride Photo Award 2012. During the evening three photographers pitched photo projects about sexual and gender diversity. The first pitch was by Jorina Kilsdonk, whose project XXXY subtly portrays androgyny, the confluence of man and woman. [...]

The categories for 2012

The four categories for the 2012 edition of Pride Photo Award were: Chameleons/Double Life - 2012 theme category ‘Chameleons/Double Life’ is the opposite of the 2011 theme ‘Straight Back at You’. Last year’s theme was about society’s reactions to people who are ‘different’, the 2012 theme was about the ways that people adapt to their [...]

Virtual exhibition 2012

The virtual exhibition is your chance to re-visit 2012's exhibition. It's also a great opportunity to visit the exhibition for those who weren't able to go last year! Your mouse is your guide and will lead you through the Oude Kerk. Select the photo's you want to see up close. Click the image below to visit the 2012 virtual exhibition.

Winner of the 2012 Award

The winner of the Pride Photo Award 2012 is Dutch photographer Chris Rijksen. The winning photo comes from his series ‘Gender as a Performance’. The jury stated that the entries showed ‘a great diversity of esthetics, topics and sexual identities, while stories about transgender identities and stories formed the majority’. Of [...]