New York-based photographer Leland Bobbé is working on an ongoing photographic series that explores the idea of gender fluidity by showing the two facets of the city’s Drag Queens. Called “Half-Drag … A Different Kind Of Beauty”, the series’ photographs are not digitally altered or transformed, but captured in a single shot.
Bobbé posted the first image of his Half-Drag project in March 2013. He explained: “These images are a series of portraits of drag queens in half-drag. With these images my intention is to capture both the male and the alter ego female side of these subjects in one image in order to explore the cross over between males and females and to break down the physical barriers that separate them. This in turn questions the normative ideas about gender and gender fluidity. Through the power of hair and makeup these men are able to completely transform themselves and find their female side while showing their male side simultaneously. These are composed in camera and are not two separate images digitally composed.”
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