Photographer J. Aiden Simon - So Incredible!
Hey everyone,
Posting bright and early this morning from the airport. I discovered an awesome artist and thought I’d share! His name is J. Aiden Simon, he’s a senior at the Maryland Institute College of Art. This past summer, he had an incredible series up at the DC Center called “Member.” According to an interview with Metro Weekly, Simon’s series is based on the idea that:
“Being a man doesn’t mean you have to have a penis, or a penis of a certain size. There are a lot of [existing] photographs of trans people and they are all saying the same thing: Trans people are human. I feel like we should be so much further than we are with art and photography of trans people. I want people to be able to have a space to start a dialogue about being a man, having a body, identifying your body as being a man’s body, and the whole issue of equating having a penis with being a man and how pervasive that is in our culture — and how damaging it is for everybody.”
Fuck Yes.
