This striking image depicts the Texas-born artist Imogen-Blue Hinojosa and forms part of Pearl, her intimate series of self-portraits shining a light on trans identity. Featured in our new print issue, the photographs were created during the first year of Hinojosa’s transition and serve to “question the innate performativity of the self”. As the artist tells Elephant, “Some of [these] were collaborations with men. I invited them to dress me according to their desires and perceptions of how I should portray my femininity. The results slip between autobiography and fiction, documenting a performance that challenges the sexualisation of my body.” Read the artist’s full reflections online and in print now.
