TransBrasil is an ongoing project, which aims to deepen gender identities issues from documentary photography perspective. It proposes to approach different social and cultural expressions that question the binary schemes masculine/feminine to understand the gender and identity process. Also, this project pursuit thinks about the possibility of multiples identities. For that reason, the proposal adopt the transgender concept, understanding the trans as a dynamic space without fix tags; as a border with an identity traffic which enable plurality and freedom to choose who each person wants to be, creating a gender hybridity. Transgender people express their gender identities in many different ways. Some people use their dress, behavior and mannerisms to live as the gender that feels right for them. Some people take hormones and may have surgery to change their body so it matches their gender identity. Some transgender people reject the traditional understanding of gender as divided between just “masculine” and “feminine” so they identify just as transgender, or gender queer, gender fluid, or something else.
2nd Prize : Antoine Repessé, France
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3rd Prize : Stephan Zirwes, Germany
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Jetmir Idrizi, originally from Prishtina, Kosovo, is a freelance photographer currently based between Kosovo and Brazil. After finishing his degree in journalism, Idrizi worked seven years as a photojournalist for national newspapers before going freelance. In 2015 Jetmir Idrizi moved to Brazil to work on his firs long term project on gender, “TransBrasil”.
EXHIBITION
Sony World Photography Awards 2016
From 22 April to 8 May 2016
Somerset House
Strand, London WC2R 1LA
United Kingdom
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk
http://www.worldphoto.org/2016exhibition
