CAMILA FALCAO

Camila Falcao is a photographer and art director based in São Paulo, Brazil. She used to be a volunteer at the Centre for Reference in Defense of Diversity in São Paulo, and thanks to this job, she was in constant and direct contact with many transgender women. After some time, she realised the enormous diversity of this community, and each of these individuals.

All their different ways of expressing their femininity enchanted her, and she saw an opportunity to bring this plurality to the surface, to contribute to the deconstruction of stereotypes and, above all, to the construction of a new and more realistic perception of them.

She explains: "I knew it wouldn’t be easy for them to trust me to create such intimate portraits, but I decided to try and get in touch with a few women. They were incredibly receptive and generous. I’ve photographed 45 women so far. My goal is to show the enormous diversity between them, and I want the work to invite people to ask themselves whether simply passing as a woman defines being one."