Photographs and text by Sandra Chen Weinstein
The New Press (2024)
“I don't identify as a woman or a man.
Sandra Chen Weinstein’s stunning new monograph, Transcend: Freedom to Love, pushes the conversation forward in the lives of the LGBTQ+ community. Profound, brilliant, and insightful, Chen Weinstein’s extraordinary color portraits are accompanied by candid interviews, including with her own child who recently came out as queer, trans, and non-binary, capturing both the complexity of identity as well as providing a mirror of the times.
Through a series of photographs of twenty-seven family and individual’s stories, the heart of the book focus’s on Sandra’s own very personal account of her child, Lee, who ‘came-out’ as nonbinary at 28. Inspired by her own child’s courage, she embraced “Lee’s identity and created a portfolio of photographs to push back against intolerance of a prejudiced society.
Sandra Chen Weinstein is an award-winning Taiwanese American documentary photographer. She was nominated for the Humanitarian Philanthropist award for Prix Pictet “Human." Her work has been exhibited in the Rencontres d'Arles, the Phillips Collection, the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Aperture Gallery, and more. Having followed her work over the last decade, I spoke with her recently about her first monograph, Transcend (published by The New Press, 2024), as she splits her time between Virginia and California.
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