Mariette Pathy Allen

Felicity by Mariette Pathy Allen

Slate’s just done a nice piece about Mariette Pathy Allen, who has been photographing members of the trans community for a long while. Her books were some of the first I saw and read, in fact.

This is one of my favorites of hers, and it’s of Felicity, who died a few years ago at the age of 102. She is sitting in front of a photo of her child self at the turn of the last century.

It was almost a rite of passage when she photographed us when we were at Fantasia Fair in Provincetown nearly a decade ago.

You can see more of her photography on her own website.