Portraits of Him (2007)

Portraits of Him seeks to rethink both gender and the notion of self-identity. These portraits of men identifying as transgender focus on maleness as a form of identity. By photographing my sitters using soft light, I sought to use a language as bare and non-coded as possible, creating images that stress the beauty of the male face as well as and the visual form of the photographic portrait. Portraits of Him portrays a longing, culminating in the desire to become Him.