Debinarize is a stylised photography piece inspired by my personal journey of gender, and gender representation. Growing up, I never had been exposed to the conversation of gender except in manipulative public school sex education courses. Higher Education changed everything, and there were suddenly words to the concepts that had been racking my brain that I didn’t even know to search for.

Gender is an identity, and a celebration of self. But I am my own worse enemy. And I did find myself under scrutiny at an early stage of my journey. It had sounded off an era of paranoia, and personal scrutiny of I am, but never enough.

Using classic film semiotics of camera angle and high contrast color lighting, this is a visual representation of the frustration and the constraints of the performative nature of gender while also being cheeky by giving passive angles towards typically masculine body parts and angles of agency towards typically feminine body parts.

I am no longer frustrated with thinking I will never show enough of one thing or the other.

Today, I know who I am. And I am golden.