Posts Tagged ‘transgender’
Kat
Sunday, November 18th, 2018Esmee
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
Esmee is a transgender girl living in the Netherlands. She began transitioning 2 1/2 years ago at the age of 9. One of her hobbies is horse back riding. She is photographed with her favorite horse Shamo.
“Esmee is a wonderful, bright, intelligent, happy, sensitive, funny, caring, beautiful and lovely girl. And we as parents are very proud of her. We went to the rest of our family and told everyone about our daughter, which everybody accepted immediately. Even the neighborhood embraced Esmee instantly. We are very blessed with such understanding people around us, it’s very important for transgenders to be accepted for who they are.” -Esmee’s parents Riena and Henk
This is a portrait from my project “Embrace” featuring portraits of transgender and gender non-binary youth and adults from different parts of the world.
Embrace
Monday, August 21st, 2017..August 2017.. ..New Jersey..
Hanging a small selection of prints with Rose from my project “Embrace.” Embrace is an on-going project photographing transgender, intersex and gender non-binary people from across the world. To date, the project includes people from America, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Scotland and Japan.
Even though the project is still in it’s early stages this was an opportunity to show a few of the portraitsat the Ocean Heights Presbyterian Church in Egg Harbor Twp, New Jersey from August 20th-September 17th. And more importantly to have a discussion how people with gender identities outside of the traditional categories are not confined to one country, culture or age group. The project will not be complete for another year. With portraits scheduled in Europe and Japan, it will be an exciting autumn.
I look forward to eventually exhibiting every portrait which was taken in the project once it is complete.