Title: Eric*
Description: Photographer Jasper Groen tells the moving story of Eric. Intense portraits and personal correspondence reveal doubts, family rejection and acceptance. Photos and text together form an universal call for understanding transgender people. There are two sections in the book: in the first section Eric's feelings are shown through a selection of portraits, made in a period of four years. The second half contains fragments of letters he wrote about the complicated relation with parents and his body. These letters are sometimes desperate, sometimes funny, but always honest and without censorship. The portraits become even more meaningful after you have read the correspondence.
Subjects: Portraits, Transgender people, Portrait photography, 21.42 history of photographic art
People: Jasper Groen, Eric Llaveria Caselles