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@klphotoawards KATHLEEN LO Hong Kong – Finalist 2024

Transgender Dilemma: Female in Male Toilet

In my project “Transgender ABC", I entered the transgender community with staged photography hoping to learn from them their culture and knowledge as a heteronormative cisgender disabled. Facing gender-segregated toilet facilities, transgender people are still in the pains of this decade old dilemma of choosing the right toilet.

I interviewed my transgender friends about their views on the toilet issue and consolidated collective concerns on toilet space design. Each toilet space concern was visually presented in a staged photo, calling for deeper understanding of the transgender community and posing a thought-provoking question for the heteronormative / all controlling powers to rethink future space design. I hope to embody visibility, collaboration and empowerment with my transgender models in these staged works.

Kathleen Lo started her first project about mental health with self-taught photography in 2021 and since then she has decided on a mission to serve marginalised communities through art & photography. Her current work is about transgender people in Hong Kong and is now dedicating full time to her photography projects. Kathleen hopes to create things with meaning and turn her work into shareable wonders with the world. 

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