‘I have never thought of myself as ambiguous … When someone questions my sex because of the way I appear and dress; I think to myself, good, ask me and learn that to be a woman I don't need to act and look a certain way.’
– Grace
Tamara Dean’s About face comprises 11 portraits of sitters who each have been described or identify as androgynous. The title is inspired by a comment made by one the sitters who has been asked ‘are you a boy or a girl?’ or ‘are you a man or a woman?’
‘Androgyny’ is derived from the Greek word andros meaning ‘man’ and gyne meaning ‘woman’, and is today used to describe a person who has both masculine and feminine characteristics.
