User:MoltenuniverseSL/Loren Cameron

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In 1979, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he identified socially with the lesbian community until the age of 26, when he confronted his dissatisfaction with his body and was excluded from the lesbian community. Cameron began his transition in 1987, and following this, began to document his transition through photography. In 1993, Cameron began studying the basics of photography and started photographing the transgender community. He gave lectures on his work at universities, educational conferences and art institutes. By 1995, Cameron's photographs had been shown in solo exhibitions in San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles.

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Cameron's work was first shown as part of a 1994 exhibit in San Francisco. His images have also been exhibited in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, in Santiago, Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and in Mexico City.[citation needed] They have been published in numerous books such as Constructing Masculinity: Discussions in Contemporary Culture and Leslie Feinberg's Transgender Warriors. He also posed for photographers such as Daniel Nicoletta, Amy Arbus, and Howard Shatz.

In many of his self portraits, Cameron included the shutter-release bulb that he used to take the photograph. In a 2016 article, Cathy Hannabach said that his choice to work alone and feature the bulb serves as a commentary on the self-made aspect of being transsexual. Hannabach wrote that Cameron's photography invoked issues of queer bioethics, and was intended to remove the clinical view of transsexual bodies and redefine them as not in need of a cure. Academic Josch Hoenes wrote of how Cameron uses his photography to create conversation about masculinity and identity, and how it challenges "what we believe to know and see", in an argument relating Cameron's work to the Transsexuellengesetz, or "Transsexual Law" put into place by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1980.