Mariette Pathy Allen: Toby at rest, 1990

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“Mariette Pathy Allen has spent almost forty years photographing transgender individuals, beginning with cross-dressers whose forays outside the safety of their homes were made at constant peril of social alienation or physical violence . . . . Allen’s artistic intention has always been to make an honest chronicle of members of this paraculture, and she collaborates with each of her subjects to represent them in the ways they want to be seen.” —Philip Gefter, in Aperture Issue #229: "Future Gender" Show more