From Ayla Angelos’ article for Sixteen:
Throughout her career, Mariette has been crushing the prejudice made against those of gender nonconformity. For years—since 1978, to be exact—she has exerted freedom and acceptance to the transgender, gender fluid and intersex communities from all parts of the globe, capturing enduring subjects from New York, Cuba and Thailand, to Mexico, Juchitan, French Polynesia and Norway. “I always wanted to show them in the daylight, in everyday life,” she adds, “to make them feel relatable.”