Portraits of Him (2007)

These portraits of men identifying as transgender focus on maleness. The work seeks to rethink gender and the notion of queer as a category. By photographing my sitters using soft light, I sought to suggest a beauty of the male face as well as for the photographic portrait, offering room for thought outside the dominant aesthetic that speaks of ‘queer’. Portraits of Him portrays a longing, culminating in the desire to become Him