Alexa La Galana, Venezuela 2025
Photography · Identity · Presence
Portraits that stay with you
In-Between Kings & Queens is a long-running documentary photography project by Léon Hendrickx and Micha Schneijderberg. Since 2015, we have photographed drag performers and gender-diverse individuals in cities across the world — in drag and out — creating co-authored portraits that hold multiple truths at once.
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The project began in 2015. What started as a local exploration has grown into an international archive of visibility and self-expression.
YEARS OF WORK15
From Amsterdam to Beijing, Lima to Taipei. We work where queer visibility is celebrated and where it demands courage. has grown into an international archive of visibility and self-expression.
COUNTRIES & CITIES10+
Every portrait is made in partnership — deciding together what to show, how to stand, what to carry.
PORTRAITS MADETwo versions of one person. Both completely true.
Sapphira Crystal, USA
Each participant is photographed twice: once in full drag or gender expression, once as they move through the world day-to-day. The result is not a before-and-after. It is a portrait of multiplicity — the full range of a person held in two images side by side.
Participants shape the work. They decide what to wear, what to say, how much to show. The camera is a tool in service of their self-determination.
"The photographs do something that arguments cannot. They make it harder to look away."
— Jury statement, Nederlands Fotomuseum, 2023
Coming up · WorldPride Amsterdam · Oude Lutherse Kerk Amsterdam · July 30th - August 9th ·
Coming up · WorldPride Amsterdam · Oude Lutherse Kerk Amsterdam · July 30th - August 9th ·
Amsterdam, July 2026
Oude Lutherse Kerk, Amsterdam · WorldPride 2026
This summer, In-Between Kings & Queens presents work at the Oude Lutherse Kerk as part of WorldPride Amsterdam 2026 — the city's first time hosting this global celebration of LGBTQIA+ rights and visibility.
The exhibition includes new portraits from Shanghai, China, alongside earlier work from the rest of the In-Between Kings & Queens world and a public programme of talks, film and performance. All events are free.