Kali Sánchez's photostream

Drag King can be many things: a transvestism practice, a lifestyle, a gender itself... A King means a realistic, often also parodical, way of featuring maleness and separating it from the born-male. As Drag Queens and Femmes, is showing us that in the end, gender is just a construction.

This project is featuring some of the best Drag Kings in Spain, where it's still a quite new practice. Also some really great Queens and Femmes have colaborated on its realization.

You can get now the Drag King calendar 2011 for profit of the international campaign STP 2012 (Stop Trans Pathologization) here:

www.redbubble.com/people/kalifotografia/calendars/6140439...

Edición en castellano:

www.lulu.com/content/legado-calendario-lulustudio/calenda...

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Altzola (Guipuzcoa, Euskadi). September '10.

Model: AizkoLarry

Camera: Holga 120 GN

Film: Kodak Portra 160VC

Drag King can be many things: a transvestism practice, a lifestyle, a gender itself... A King means a realistic, often also parodical, way of featuring maleness and separating it from the born-male. As Drag Queens and Femmes, is showing us that in the end, gender is just a construction.

This project is featuring some of the best Drag Kings in Spain, where it's still a quite new practice. Also some really great Queens and Femmes have colaborated on its realization.

You can get now the Drag King calendar 2011 for profit of the international campaign STP 2012 (Stop Trans Pathologization) here:

www.redbubble.com/people/kalifotografia/calendars/6140439...

Edición en castellano:

www.lulu.com/content/legado-calendario-lulustudio/calenda...

www.lulu.com/content/legado-calendario-lulustudio/calenda...

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Barcelona. July '10.

Models: Dani, Mario, Bastián.

Camera: Holga 120 GN

Film: Kodak Portra 160VC

Drag King can be many things: a transvestism practice, a lifestyle, a gender itself... A King means a realistic, often also parodical, way of featuring maleness and separating it from the born-male. As Drag Queens and Femmes, is showing us that in the end, gender is just a construction.

This project is featuring some of the best Drag Kings in Spain, where it's still a quite new practice. Also some really great Queens and Femmes have colaborated on its realization.

You can get now the Drag King calendar 2011 for profit of the international campaign STP 2012 (Stop Trans Pathologization) here:

www.redbubble.com/people/kalifotografia/calendars/6140439...

Edición en castellano:

www.lulu.com/content/legado-calendario-lulustudio/calenda...

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Barcelona. July '10.

Models: Mario, Dani, Bastián.

Camera: Holga 120 GN

Film: Kodak Portra 160VC

Habitualmente, cuando un hombre se anonimiza se está preparando para ejercer violencia; cuando una mujer se anonimiza, lo hace para evitar que se ejerza violencia sobre ella.

Retrato experimental tomado durante una fiesta "after" en mi casa.

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Usually, when a male anonymize himself is in preparation for exercing violence; when a female anonymize herself is in avoidance of a violence exerted towards her.

Experimental portrait taken during an after party at home. July '10.

Model: J.

Fuji 800NPZ. Holga 120 GCFN shooted with orange flash on.

Scanned on Canoscan 8800F. Arc Photostudio 5.5.

Claudia trabaja como mimo en las Ramblas de Barcelona. Es un auténtico amor de persona, más allá de su divertidísimo personaje. Tuve el placer de que me dedicase varias poses para retratarla, ya que conocía las cámaras Holga y es una apasionada de la estética que crean. Pero ninguna foto podría mostrar toda su luz. Si pasáis por la Rambla, no dejéis de admirarla.

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Claudia performs as mime at Las Ramblas (Barcelona). Besides her very funny character, is a very lovely person herself. I had the great pleasure of having her posing for me to do several portraits, as she knew Holga cameras and is passionate about its aesthetics. But any picture can capture all her light.. If you walk by Las Ramblas, you must stop to admire her.

las Ramblas, Barcelona (Catalunya, Spain), July '10.

Holga 120 GN.

Ilford HP5. D-76 stock, 8 min at 21ºC.

Scanned with Canoscan 8800F and ArcSoft Photostudio 5.5. RGB mode.