This is Trans 🏳️‍⚧️ a photographic journey of awareness and love

Extended Gallery Hours November 7-20, 2024
Thursday-Saturday 11 am-6 pm
Sunday 12 pm-3 pm
Monday-Wednesday 4-6 pm

About the Artist
With an immense focus on empowering and uplifting marginalized communities; photographer, digital artist, educator, public speaker, and writer; Mx. Vincent-Natasha Gay (they/she; NV for short) draws inspiration through their life experiences as a transgender individual. Their work explores topics of the human condition bolstered by the words and lived experiences of NV’s subjects. With intent on treasuring individualistic self-expression, NV exposes the raw wounds of prejudice and abuse, while advocating for the inherent beauty in being human. Click here to read more...

About This is Trans

This project was started at the beginning of 2022 as a way to bring visibility and awareness to transgender people of all forms. Transgender can be mistakenly thought of as a binary concept in which a person has to transition from one binary gender to the other, aka male to female or female to male.

Stigmas surrounding the community have pushed a belief that a transgender person is only valid if they transition fully with the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and gender confirming surgeries. While some transgender people transition in this way, I am seeking to bring to light that transgender is an umbrella that covers an array of identities; and that each is unique, beautiful and fully valid.

My goal is to illustrate that the only true way to transition is the way that is best for each individual person. Participants in this project have been photographed as they are, showing the world that they are completely valid in their unique and diverse transgender identity and presentation. All participants have contributed their personalities, their identities, their compassion, and their desire to see a world that truly accepts and loves them for the beautiful humans that they are.