Loren Cameron
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| Loren Cameron | |
| Born | 1959 Pasadena, California |
|---|---|
| Residence | San Francisco, California |
| Occupation | Photographer, author |
| Website | Online Alchemy |
Loren Cameron (born 1959) is an American photographer, author and transsexual activist. His work sets out to document the lives and bodies of transsexual men, and consists largely of self-portraits and portraits of other female to male transsexuals.
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[edit] Biography
Loren Cameron was born in Pasadena, California in 1959. He moved to rural Arkansas in 1968 after his mother's death, where he describes himself as being raised as a tomboy on his father's farm. After identifying as a lesbian at the age of sixteen, he encountered homophobic hostility in the small town where he lived. This motivated him to quit school and run away from home to travel the country and work hard scrabble jobs. He moved to the San Fransisco Bay Area in 1979 where he lived as a part of the lesbian community until the age of twenty-six, when he faced his discomfort with his female body and gender. His interest in photography began as he documented his own transition. Having no formal training, in 1993 Cameron taught himself the rudiments of photography and began to respectfully photograph/portray the lives of himself and other transsexuals.
Loren Cameron currently resides in the San Fransisco Bay Area and continues his photographic works and lectures.
[edit] Works
Loren Cameron's photography and writing was first collected in Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits, a book documenting his personal experience with the transition from female to male, his life as a man, and the everyday lives of transmen he knew. Body Alchemy was met with much positive criticism and ended up a double 1996 Lambda Literary Award winner. It remains his most well-known work, although he has since published other works, including an e-book. Cameron's photographs have been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, and has also been published in several books by other authors, including Transgender Warriors (Leslie Feinberg, 1996) and Constructing Masculinity: Discussions in Contemporary Culture (Routledge, 1995), as well as in numerous magazines.[1][2]
Cameron also makes lectures about his work throughout the United States at institutions including Smith College, Harvard, Cornell, Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been a guest speaker at the Society for Photographic Education Conference and the FTM International Conference, and interviewed on BBC and in The New Yorker.[1][3][4]
[edit] Books by Loren Cameron
- Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits. 1996, Cleis Press. ISBN 978-1-57344-062-2.
- Man Tool: The Nuts and Bolts of Female-to-Male Surgery, 2001, Zero eBooks.
- Photographs by Loren Cameron Volume 1. 2003, Taller Experimental Cuerpos Pintados.
- Photographs by Loren Cameron Volume 2. 2003, Taller Experimental Cuerpos Pintados.
- Cameron Correspondence 1997-2001 Volume 3. 2003, Taller Experimental Cuerpos Pintados.
[edit] References and footnotes
All biographical information is taken from Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits and the biography section of Online Alchemy as of January 27, 2007.
- ^ a b Selected Résumé, Online Alchemy, January 27, 2007
- ^ Author details, Amazon.com, January 27, 2007
- ^ Presentations, Online Alchemy, January 27, 2007
- ^ Body Alchemy details, IFGE Books, January 27, 2007
[edit] External links
- Online Alchemy, the art of Loren Cameron (official page)
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Cameron, Loren |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Transsexual photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pasadena, California |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
