This Body Was Carved From Stone (2023-ongoing) explores and reflects on my experience as a transgender man, and the effect this has had on my life and my relationships with the people around me. I explore both the positives and the negatives of this experience: the difficulties of a gender non-conforming childhood and puberty, and the joy of defining myself for myself. 

Questioning my identity and sense of self over the years has led me to develop a deeply complex relationship with gender. This internal journey I’ve been on since childhood was externalised once I began my social and medical transition, choosing to show the outside world the person I have always known myself to be.

Through my photographic self-portraiture, I am learning to carve a space for myself within a hostile social landscape that actively rejects and denies my existence. I use the camera to show my reality as I see and experience it, and to record both the physical and emotional changes I go through as my transition progresses.

My journey is one of intensive self-reflection, self-liberation, and learning to take pride in my identity.