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LorenCameron KEYNOTEPRESENTER
Loren Cameron is a self-taught photographer and artist, producing candid portraits of transgender persons. He began this work in 1993, and nearly two years later, his images had been shown in solo exhibitions in several major cities, including Minneapolis, where “The Genders That Be” and “Heterogeneous” were shown at the Walker Art Center and the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, respectively. In 1996, Cameron published his first photographic book, Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits. The book won two Lambda Literary Awards, including Inaugural Transgender Category and Small Press Category 1997. In 2001, he published a second book on the Internet, Man Tool: The Nuts and Bolts of Female-to-Male Surgery, and in 2003, published a three-volume collection, Cuerpos Fotografiados Por Cameron 1 and 2, and Correspondence 1997 – 2001. The volume collection is currently touring internationally within an exhibit entitled “Taller Experimental Cuerpos Pintados”, produced by Roberto Edwards of Santiago, Chile. Cameron is celebrated for his seminal work of transgender self-representation in the photographic arts. His historical
contribution has acquired the distinction of being preserved and archived by Cornell University Library. As an honored guest speaker, Cameron lectures extensively throughout the United States, having toured over sixty colleges in the past decade. Cameron’s works have also been shown on television, including CBS’s 60 Minutes, The BBC Channel 4, SBTV Brazil, Globo TV Brazil, and TV Japan, and in several movies and documentaries, including Boys Don’t Cry, You Don’t Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men, Sex Files III, Boy I Am, and TABOO. His works have also been shown in the magazines Advocate, Gay Times UK, Girlfriends, Marie Claire, and Out. Cameron continues to photograph the transgender nude, creating a comprehensive and diverse representation of transsexual body modification. Concurrently, he is producing an intimate, photographic essay depicting homosexual Female-To-Male transsexuals, also known as gay-identified FTMs. He currently resides in San Francisco, California.