He is her
2010-2011

What gender are you belonging to?
If it was a test on the summer issue
of a tabloid, the answer to this
question would be Male or Female.
If the test appeared instead
in a scientific magazine, who
prepared it would be careful to include
into the profile also the option
Intersexual and Transsexual.
And so finally we would have our definition,
we would know exactly who we are,
to whom we feel attraction, with whom
we would like to have sex
and plan a couple's life together.
Unfortunately, the gender is not decided
by a test, but is a complex idea, who lives
in the wrinkles and in the nuances,
which prefers not to be in-channeled
into the ranks of a definition.
I photographed three transvestites who live
in the district of Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Even though attending and belonging
to the same queer community, the three
have a perception of their gender
and a completely different approach to sexuality.
One of them lives in a gay couple
since more than 20 years, another is asexual,
the third wants to undergo
gender reassignment surgery. Entering
the micro-worlds of their everyday life,
I tried to focus on the shadows of the gender’s definition. I tried to describe the thin line in
which the types are lost and where the masculine and feminine worlds touch
themselves till up to blend. I left that the shades of colors - and not the clarity of black
and white – expressed what the definition
couldn’t explain.