跨性別者群像：
透過跨性別者們的生命故事，以他們的角度重新看待世界
攝影師Mark Seliger在美國同志運動聖地：石牆酒吧所在的克里斯多福街，以哈蘇相機記載74個跨性別著的身影與心境。
在克里斯多福街上，所有的性取向跟性別認同，無數可能的自我都在此展現：跨性別者、變性人、非二元性別者、性別酷兒、T、P、變裝者、變裝國王、變裝皇后，以及其他許多轉變均挑戰著我們對性別的認同。這條街坐落在紐約的格林威治村，是當代LGBTQ運動的誕生地。今日，石牆革命發生地，克里斯多福街與哈德遜街路口被重新命名為希爾薇婭•利維拉大道，是每年一度的LGBTQ遊行的終點。
以名人、音樂家與藝術家攝影著名的Mark Seliger，住在西村(格林威治村隔壁)已經將近二十年了。在最新的這一本攝影集之中，他的好奇心驅使他以記錄風格拍攝一些肖像，記錄下每晚的名人狂歡節、性的視覺交流與我們今天居住於跨性別世界的潮起潮落。產出74張美麗的黑白肖像，全程使用作者的哈蘇相機，首次出版。
On Christopher Street: Transgender
Stories結合他們感人與深沈的個人故事，提醒我們避難所的需要，一個能視為自己歸屬之地。他們的出現挑戰我們去重新定義家與社群，他們的出現促使我們去停下來深思。確保我們不會再因為恐懼與偏見而無所適從。我們將與他們站在一起，認識他們，並看見他們。這裡是我們的大街，這些人是我們的一份子。(文/博客來編譯)
On Christopher Street there are all kinds of sexual orientations and gender identities, endless possibilities of potential selves: transgender, transsexual, non-binary, genderqueer, femme,
butch, cross-dresser, drag kings, drag queens, and many other identities that shift, adapt, and challenge our understanding of gender. This street nestled in the middle of New York City’s
Greenwich Village is heralded as the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Today, the intersection at Christopher and Hudson Streets has been renamed “Sylvia Rivera Way,” after the
pioneering trans-activist and the annual LGBTQ pride parade ends its procession on Christopher Street, where the revolution began at the Stonewall Inn.
Renowned photographer Mark Seliger, best known for his portraits of celebrities, musicians, and artists, has called the West Village home for nearly two decades. For his latest book, On
Christopher Street: Transgender Stories, his curiosity inspired him to shoot a handful of portraits—documentary style—in hopes of capturing the color, flamboyant characters, and theatre of a
famous, but vanishing neighborhood.
What Seliger discovered was a nightly carnival of personalities that open up the visual discourse about sexuality and the constant ebb and flow of the transgender world we all inhabit today.
The end result is a collection of 74 beautiful, black and white portraits, all taken with Seliger’s Hasselblad camera, and never-before-published.
These forthcoming portraits of trans people on Christopher Street combined with their moving and deeply personal stories remind us of our need for sanctuary, for a space to call our own.
Their presence challenges us to redefine home, community, and ownership. Their presence challenges us to stop and reflect. No longer will we remain idle and pass by them in fear and prejudice.
We will stand with them, recognize them, and see them. These are our streets, and these are our people. On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories stands out as some of Seliger’s most powerful
work.
