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Photographing identity

Clarissa Sligh’s photograph of Jake, back when she was Deb, from the series Jake in Transition Although Roberta and I went to the Woodmere Museum’s second Triennial of Contemporary Photography a week ago, I am still pondering some of what I saw, namely the photographs and text by Clarissa Sligh. Sligh, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, documented the transformation of someone born a woman who was so sure she was really a man that she underwent sex-change surgery and hormone treatments. The photos of Jake are sometimes breathtakingly beautiful, sometimes hard to look at even from the corner ... More » »