Seeking Participants: Photo Project on Transphobia & Gender Baiting

[Enigma]

"A Series of Questions"

Photo Project on Transphobic and Gender Baiting Questions

ONGOING: SEEKING PARTICIPANTS

questionphotoproject@gmail.com

www.lweingarten.com


“A Series of Questions” is a photo project exploring the power dynamics inherent in the questions asked of transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, gender-variant, and/or gender non-conforming people. Participants are photographed holding a sign upon which is written a question they have been asked. The questions are then turned on the viewer, shifting the dynamics under which they were originally asked, forming a larger series of questions which many of the people photographed face as a part of their daily lives.

Many documentary photographic works dealing with trans issues and gender exploit the genders of these subjects, pointing to an “otherness” or inappropriately exoticizing; this body of work seeks to instead point to the transphobia and gender-baiting that can become part of everyday interactions and lives, forming a more full picture of the various lived experiences.

Sample image:


http://sites.google.com/site/questionphotoproject/_/rsrc/1255758797249/whatdoyoutell-large.jpg?height=420&width=410

more about the project and installations here:

http://sites.google.com/site/questionphotoproject/


About LWeingarten:

http://www.lweingarten.com/page/about/


~Images from the Collection~

http://c0170361.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1907682_228947_e8898dc8f7_l.jpg

http://c0170361.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/2225293_228947_e8898dc8f7_m.jpg

http://www.lweingarten.com/static/photologue/photos/cache/q003_display.jpg


More information about the project and images here:

http://www.jpgmag.com/stories/12847

[afixer]

very interesting....thank you. :)

[Enigma]

very interesting....thank you. :)

Yes, I think it is very interesting also. I love the blend of activism, gender diversity and art!

I am always fascinated by not only the diversity of the trans community but their amazing courage, whether it is simply navigating the landscape of their day-to-day lives or putting themselves out there to forward awareness. Sometimes it seems to me that those who have had the heaviest burdens are the first to step up to carry more. Perhaps that courage, strength and insight comes from a lifetime of being challenged in ways that the rest of the world does not see.

This site and the members here are an example of that very concept.

Whatever it is...I am in awe of it.

[afixer]

Yes, I think it is very interesting also. I love the blend of activism, gender diversity and art!
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This site and the members here are an example of that very concept.

Whatever it is...I am in awe of it.


I consider myself fairly androgenous and I'm often suprised how folks address me in different situations...sometimes good sometimes bad.