MATTER STUDIO GALLERY

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My camera is my confidante, my mechanical partner with whom I share my most

treacherous desires and delicate fantasies, and who, in turn, helps me make my innermost worlds appear undeniably real to the eyes of others. As a transsexual man, my own image has often been a fleeting thing, constantly in flux, something that didn’t always make sense to me. I became enraptured with photography’s ability to turn “who I was” into something endlessly malleable yet definitive. My own image remains a documentation; pure potential of the self, no roadblocks, no dead ends, endless possibility in identity, in image, in character. I continue to photograph in

an effort to parse through each facet of myself, my body, my yearnings, and my masculine performances. Through investigating and realizing my physical encounters with my own transsexual maleness and queerness, personal traumas, and sense of family and belonging, my

work serves as a testimony to my Self, my friends, my lovers, and all who may wish to introspect alongside me.