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American Boys is a book of portraits capturing the trans-masculine community across the United States. The young Americans featured in these pages are united through their proud embrace of gender identity. Both tender and exciting these portraits are evidence of the rapidly expanding conceptions of gender sweeping the country.
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Soraya Zaman is an Australian photographer based in New York. Their work primarily explores notions of sexuality and gender.
Summary
American Boys is a book of portraits capturing the trans-masculine community across the United States. The young Americans featured in these pages are united through their proud embrace of gender identity. Both tender and exciting these portraits are evidence of the rapidly expanding conceptions of gender sweeping the country.
Foreword
Andrea Smith, Publicist National print and online campaign Social Media campaign Promotion through: www.daylightbooks.org
Photo magazines: Aperture, Photo District News, Professional Photographer, Rangefinder, Shutterbug, The Photo Review, British Journal of Photography, Photographer’s Forum, among others.
General interest publications that cover books, art, culture, LGBT issues: The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Smithsonian, Vice, New York Review of Books, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, etc.
LGBTQ/Human Rights: Media geared towards the LGBTQ community and specifically transgender males, Out, Advocate, them. (conde nast channel for LGBTQ people), etc
Newspapers in top markets for LGBTQ community: New York, San Francisco, Portland, Austin, Providence, RI, Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia, Orlando, etc.
Trade press: Publishers Weekly, Library Journal
Blogs/Online: Hyperallergic , The Huffington Post (Gay Voices), The Daily Beast, Feature Shoot, Lenscratch, aCurator, Musee magazine, We-Heart, etc.
Australian media (to be researched (photographer is from here)
NPR Radio (local and national)
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“...helping to expand our perceptions of the trans-masculine community…”,
- i-D, June 22, 2018
"...beautiful and profound...",
- The Daily Beast, April 6, 2019
