From Ellyn Kail’s post announcing the winners of the 2nd Annual Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards, including Lissa Rivera:
Lissa Rivera collaborates with her friend, muse, and romantic partner to create a private domain in which fantasy and real life collide. Based on a conversation in which her friend divulged his collegiate habit of donning women’s clothing, the pair constructs a series of glamorous and alluring portraits in which gender and our understanding of it becomes ambiguous and nuanced. Beautiful Boy is a testament both to the man before her lens and her abiding love for him.