DEEPLY HUMAN - GLOBAL QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY

Launched in 2009 as the first festival of its kind in Germany, Queer Festival Heidelberg has become an essential event for the queer scene (and beyond). Queer culture platform celebrating diversity sexual and gender, its mix of concerts, art exhibitions, performances, readings, film screenings and round tables attract Every year more than 10,000 visitors come from all over Germany and Europe. Since 2021, the largest and oldest queer festival Germany is supported by the city of Heidelberg as part of its Rainbow Cities Network Membership. A complete book about the competition annual photographic festival organized alongside the festival will be published this year to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the event. It includes a wide range of photos and short portraits representing a selection of best works of recent years. Thanks to the evolution of the objective of the competition and its international appeal, the book offers a cultural and unusual theme of photographic positions and perspectives which transcend established norms, codes and visual images.