‘Polarity’ by Ukrainian photographer Lana Yanovska, a work about androgyny and gender opposites, has won the Audience Award for the 2016 edition of Pride Photo Award. Of the 13.156 people who visited the Old Church, where the 2016 exhibition of the winning images of Pride Photo Award was on display, almost one in six
It’s hard to catch Jean- François Bouchard, the winner of the 2nd prize in Gender category for 2015, in just a few words. He is CEO & co-founder of Sid Lee, a global creative team of 600 with offices in Montreal, Amsterdam, Paris, Toronto, Los Angeles and New York. He is Vice President Creation and
María José Virgilio, Puerto Rican photographer with a New York address, won the Second Prize in the category ‘Single Images’ in this year’s Pride Photo Award contest. Her touching diptych ‘Mother and Daughter (Make sure the front door is locked)’ made us want to peak into her life and discover what inspires her work as
Shahria Sharmin won the second prize in the 2014 theme category ‘Getting Closer’ with ‘Call me Heena’. In this touching photo series she portrays hijras (the local word for what we know as transgenders) in Bangladesh. Shahria told us that making ther series was a personal journey for her. Like almost everyone else in Bangladesh,
“We found ourselves in a story that was impossible not to tell!” Struck by the strong sense of family in an Indonesian transgender community living together in a shelter in Jakarta, Giorgio Taraschi decided to shoot the photo series ‘Hotel Waria’. The gorgeous and open photos won this year’s first prize in the
In 2011 you became the first winner of a Pride Photo Award with your portrait of Leon, an 11-year-old transgender boy. What was that like? It was a big surprise, because I hadn’t expected to win at all. I had just graduated from the Photo Academy in Amsterdam, so it was an amazing