TRANS-LOVE ll BY SEIGAR
Trans-Love II by Seigar.
This series shows the love between Amy and Kirian. Amy is Aries, and Kirian is Pisces, both 27 years old. Amy defines herself as a bisexual cisgender woman and Kirian as a straight transexual man. Their relationship started 10 months ago. They connected on the Internet, on social networks. Amy was the one to feel attracted to Kirian so she showed some interest to meet him.
A Carnival night in Tenerife under a strong haze from Africa that we call calima, they met by chance. It was not their best night because of others, she was still linked to her difficult past. However, once they decided to be together, everything went right for them, except for the confinement break due to the coronavirus. It was hard to be apart and not to be able to meet, especially at the beginning of their relationship.
They were missing having coffee together somewhere to keep on knowing each other. There is a great sparkle in their eyes when they talk about their video chats during that time. Once they could meet again, that very first day, Amy lost her bus home, so she had to stay at Kirian's. There is so much honesty, tenderness, and innocence in their narrative, there is no doubt about how they feel. Amy did not know much about the lives of transgender people before Kirian, but that did not make a difference for her to fall in love with Kirian. Now, she knows, and takes advantage of her strong presence on Instagram
she fights for the rights of trans people, she uses her voice to make people understand, accept, and respect. Kirian has always been an activist, he has participated in multiple and different social and artistic activities, and events to tell his story and to make his reality visible. I must confess that during the shooting, they were constantly protecting and caring for each other.
They showed lots of verbal and body language signs of their feelings. This series is part of my work as a photographer on identity, I'm interested in everything that defines people. I intend to bring real stories to tackle the ignorance connected to hate and intolerance. I believe that knowledge permits us to feel empathy and love. Thanks, Amy and Kirian for letting me tell your love story.
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Biography:
Seigar is a passionate travel, street, social documentary, conceptual and pop photographer based in Tenerife. He feels obsessed with pop culture that he shows in his series. He is a fetishist for reflections, saturated colors, curious finds, and religious icons. He also flirts with journalism and video. His main inspiration is traveling. His aim as an artist is to tell tales with his camera, creating a continuous storyline from his trips. His most ambitious projects so far are his Plastic People
a study on anthropology and sociology that focuses on the humanization of the mannequins he finds in the shop windows all over the world, and his Tales of a City, an ongoing urban photo-narrative project taken in London. He is a philologist and also works as a secondary school teacher. He is a self-taught visual artist, though he has done a two years course in advanced photography and one in cinema and television. He has participated in several exhibitions and his works have been featured in many publications. He has collaborated with different media such as VICE and WAG1.
He writes for Dodho Magazine and for The Cultural about photography and pop culture, and for Memoir Mixtapes about music. Lately, he has experimented with video forms. His last interest is documenting identity. Recently, he received the Rafael Ramos García International Photography Award.
Webpage: seigar.wordpress.com
Social Networks:
Facebook/Instagram: @jseigar
Galleries: flickr.com/photos/theblueheartbeat/albums
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