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I think that it’s hard to know that you exist 
if there’s nothing representing you and reflecting you in the culture.
With the trans and gender-nonconforming legacies 
photography has played an integral role to creating identities. 
As an artist and a photographer myself 
I felt the need to create images that I was not seeing.
In coming here to Chelsea 
I was reminded of being a young photo student at SVA,
and had one of those moments of kind of realizing how far I’ve come. 
It feels amazing to be here and to be respected for the work that I’m doing. 
