Photographer Erwin Olaf receives a posthumous range award

Erwin Olaf has subsequently obtained the Winq Variety Award. The photographer, who died in September, will obtain the variety award for his years of dedication to the LGBTI group.

The awards are the brainchild of Winq, {a magazine} for queer males. Editor-in-chief Martijn Kamphorst notes that the rights of LGBTI individuals world wide are below strain.

“The Netherlands can also be falling additional and additional within the European rating of nations the place LGBTI rights are properly regulated. With these awards we make room for a optimistic voice, by emphasizing individuals highly effective and initiatives that enhance the visibility and acceptance of our group.”

Erwin Olaf died final yr September on the age of 64. Winq Journal calls Olaf the rightful winner of the award due to his years of dedication to “the underground individuals in society”.

His former supervisor Shirley den Hartog and Kevin’s widow Ray Edwards obtained the award. They took the chance to announce the institution of the Erwin Olaf Basis. With this basis they wish to let the photographer’s concepts stay.

Den Hartog: “With this we hope to present area not solely to Erwin’s artwork, but in addition to his activism. Activism flowed via his veins.”

Along with the posthumous award of Erwin Olaf, Annefleur Schipper and Vera Siemons (for the NPO 3FM podcast) obtained awards, amongst others. The Lesbian League), theater venture Boys Will not Be Boys and the bookstore De Queer Boekenkast received awards on the awards ceremony.

Ghanaian activist Shika Fleischer obtained an award from the help group Hivos. Fleischer is dedicated to the queer group in Ghana. Final February the Ghanaian parliament voted with a regulation that makes it potential for individuals to determine themselves as LGBTI individuals. “I firmly imagine that nobody is actually free till we’re all free,” Fleischer mentioned.

The awards have been offered for the sixth time. Earlier winners embody Raven van Dorst, Arjen Lubach, Sylvana Simons and the NOS podcast The Shadow Spirit.