In December of 1959, Paris’s Place Pigalle was overtaken by the annual carnival, the squares bustling with snake charmers, dancers, and throngs of …
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Photographing Transgender Stories, from the 1950s to Today
Travel back in time to 1950s Paris, where a community of transgender women found their chosen families. Follow the photographer Mariette Pathy Allen through the decades as she traces the stories of gender-nonconforming people, from Seattle to Havana. Revisit the iconic drag scene of New York City in the 1980s-90s, and see how photographers today are illuminating trans histories and advocating for human rights.
“I got very little respect for this work for a long time,” Mariette Pathy Allen tells me, remembering her early days photographing and collaborating …
Earlier this summer, the documentary photographer Leon Cato watched as his city, New York, came together for a historic moment. Brooklyn Liberation, …
Relationship, #23 (The Longest Day of the Year), 2011 There’s a photo on Myspace from 2005, picturing a party in Manhattan. In the crowd, two …
Nearly three years ago, the London-based photographer Reme Campos met Elio, a young man with a passion for art, poetry, and social justice. She …
