Me, Myself & Emma

Me, Myself & Emma

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    Emma Frisch
    Marienburger Str. 26
    26316 Varel
    Germany

    Mail: emma at frisch.art
    • All images © 2017 - 2020, Maike & Emma Frisch

    I admit that I was always confused - if not even a bit scared - when I met people with a transsexual background. I felt threatened in a way I could only describe as insecure, uninformed and not accepting.

    To understand my own insecurities, I started wondering about how society, in general, reacts to people who disrupt the core beliefs of gender. Little did I know about the journey that was (and still is) ahead of me.

    This project is not only about the question of whether it is suitable for men to wear dresses. Changing your perceived gender changes your perspective on a lot of things, including your own identity, the society you live in, or the value of your own life. Starting from self-doubt, over the definition of unconditional love, all the way to the question of who we really are and what (or who) defines us as masculine or feminine, I am trying to translate all those questions into photographs with the help of my loving wife. Every photograph represents questions I have asked myself or situations I have been confronted with. Believing that gender identity is something people should not have to explain, we invite the viewer to ask their own questions. This is an ongoing project, with no end in sight. Not only, because we see this as an important subject in our time, but also because this project taught us how artificial and harmful it is to push people into certain gender roles. And this is exactly what photography, at least for us, has always been about: Changing people’s perspective, and our own, on things that really matter.

    Wondering

    2019-03-03
    by Emma

    Dishes

    2019-03-03
    by Emma

    Surprises

    2018-12-30
    by Emma

    Thinking about life

    2018-09-01
    by Emma

    Yearning for answers

    2018-09-01
    by Emma

    Getting Ready

    2018-07-12
    by Emma

    Moms encounter with Emma

    2018-07-12
    by Emma

    Portrait of someone unknown

    2018-07-12
    by Emma

    A Walk in the Park

    2018-07-08
    by Emma

    Shopping

    2018-07-08
    by Emma

    Where to Go

    2018-07-08
    by Emma

    Layer of Smoke

    2018-07-08
    by Emma

    Fitting Room

    2018-07-08
    by Emma

    Heels

    2018-04-24
    by Emma
    • All images © 2017 - 2020, Maike & Emma Frisch