The Boy Who Was Not A Lesbian & Other True Stories


  • Photographer
    Kristin Lyseggen
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2007-2012
  • Technical Info
    Digital

About the book and the images: At age 22 Kristin Lyseggen was hired as a young journalist on a newspaper starting up in her home city of Oslo Norway. She soon discovered that her love was in  “otherness” as revealed through photography. She moved to study in Birmingham, England where otherness abounds and photography could to tell many stories; People in the West Midlands who met and lived-out as American cowboys every weekend, the Jesus Army which took her in, but when she found the world of gender fluid it left her wanting more.  It was amongst this group that she discovered people who said they were born in the wrong body. This led her to place an ad on the Harry Benjamin Resource Center’s website when she returned to Norway in 2007, seeking participants in a project to increase understanding of people who define themselves as born in the wrong body.  Little did she know that this would take her on journeys around the world, and lead to the conundrum of how to present people who have made the leap from their natal gender to that of the person who they always knew they were; People who appeared to the camera as normal as the next person. It was in their stories that had to be told, that she found her work for the next five years. These are the stories of four women and seven men—from Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, England, Cuba, and the United States—who generously and fearlessly shared their life experiences with her. The people in these stories are pioneers taking us on journeys that rival those of the most intrepid seafaring explorers. Coming forth with their struggles and achievements, with the hope that they will help pave the way for the many young people starting out in life as they did, on a road still strewn with many barriers.

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