Chloe Aftel documents trans people in their most intimate moments.
, the teenager who was set on fire while riding a bus in Oakland. They’re all shot in their homes, or in a place they consider to be ‘home’ in an attempt to draw attention to the ongoing human rights crisis around the trans community.
“I wish very much that people could simply be themselves without the government, religion, or other special interest groups feeling they have a right to insert themselves,” said Aftel, who is donating a portion of book sales to the , an organization which helps LGBTQ youth. Aftel took some time out to speak to us about community, bravery and the battle to overcome transphobia.When I first met Edie , she just seemed very comfortable being genderqueer and occupying that place without any worry or hesitation. I just wanted to shoot her, to try and figure out what it meant, visually, to present and view oneself as outside the binary.
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