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The way a camera, in terms of photography, can strip you of socialization and thus place you onto a previously empty (white) canvas—revealing a reality in which gender is not constructed (…by society) but shaped by your own means, is rather unique. Think androgyny, or being open to whatever manifests at a given moment by means of the process of careful listening. Photography therefore holds the power of deception and of oscillation between nightmares and dreams. Through the dangerous act of seeing yourself under the gaze of someone who holds the power to bend light and color at will, you may discover a version of yourself either fully embedded in the maker’s thoughts or freed from your own societal shackles. […] Either way, be strong—dare not to fit in, dare to believe in an androgynous reality.