Transgender in Cambodia | Tencent
Jia Yanan—Tencent
While attending a workshop for emerging photographers at last year’s Angkor Photo Festival in Cambodia, Jia Yanan found a new way to approach a longstanding interest in fluid boundaries of gender. Jia’s earlier work included a photo essay on drag queens in Shanghai, which she had shot in the mode of traditional reportage. When she proposed photographing transgender people in Cambodia, her tutors at the workshop urged her to experiment with a different style of photography. The result was this gallery, for which Jia shot her subjects lit with projects of canonical works of Western art.
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While attending a workshop for emerging photographers at last year’s Angkor Photo Festival in Cambodia, Jia Yanan found a new way to approach a longstanding interest in fluid boundaries of gender. Jia’s earlier work included a photo essay on drag queens in Shanghai, which she had shot in the mode of traditional reportage. When she proposed photographing transgender people in Cambodia, her tutors at the workshop urged her to experiment with a different style of photography. The result was this gallery, for which Jia shot her subjects lit with projects of canonical works of Western art.