Mariette Pathy Allen has been photographing the transgender community for over forty years. Through her artistic practice, she has been a pioneering force in gender consciousness, contributing to numerous cultural and academic publications about gender variance and lecturing across the globe. Her first book, Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them, was groundbreaking in its investigation of a misunderstood community. Her second book, The Gender Frontier, is a collection of photographs, interviews, and essays covering political activism, youth, and the range of people that identify as transgender in the United States. It won the 2004 Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender/Genderqueer category. Other books include TransCuba and Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thailand.
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In 1984, Allen was invited to attend and photograph a house ball in Harlem. …
This series started with black-and-white images in New Orleans on the last day of …
Starting in the early ’90s, recalls Allen, “my work focused on female-to-male as well …
Allen writes: “Cuba is a country transitioning from strict communism to a more relaxed …
“Most people in Burma and Thailand are Buddhists, but there are areas in both …
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