Posted May 06, 2014 in Member News
Jess Dugan's "Every Breath We Drew" featured in New York Times' Lens Blog
May 5, 2014, 5:00 am
In the Moment, Connecting and Questioning
by Jake Naughton
Jess Dugan does not shy away from the complicated, the messy or the incomplete.
One of her first projects, "Transcendence," portrayed transgender and gender-variant people in arresting portraits, often staring directly at the viewer. Ms. Dugan herself identifies as genderqueer someone who doesn't abide by conventional gender distinctions. She saw her work as a way to explore elements of her own identity that were not well understood, recalling how she grew up seeing few images she could relate to. "Transcendence" was done in response, and also to get viewers to address their own conceptions about identity...
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