Transgender photographer to speak at UMD
An award-winning photographer who captured his own transition from female to male in a series of self-portraits will present a lecture today at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
By: Christa Lawler, Duluth News Tribune
Published September 26, 2012, 06:18 AMhttp://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/244624/group/homepage/An award-winning photographer who captured his own transition from female to male in a series of self-portraits will present a lecture today at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
Loren Cameron's "Transgender Images" includes stories from his life as a transsexual photographer and from the lives of other people he's photographed. The 90-minute lecture includes 80 slides of his work, billed as a visual resource for demystifying the transsexual body.
"Transgender Images" is at 6 p.m. today in the Kirby Ballroom. It's free and open to the public.
"The most important thing is to educate people," said Angela Nichols, head of UMD's GLBT services. "What does it mean for people to identify as trans? What does it look like?"
Cameron's transition from female to male began in the late 1980s. He describes his early portrait work as a crude documentation-turned-impassioned mission.
PHOTO: Loren Cameron (Self Portrait)
