Recent article detailing the impact of “Transformations” and “The Gender Frontier,” in conjunction with the inclusion of these projects on Getty Image’s online archive. Click to read the full article on Getty Images: FOTO.
Recent review of “Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thailand” published in Zeke Magazine Spring 2018 issue. Digital version of review available online here: ZEKE Digital Edition Spring 2018
4/12/18: How Spirit Mediums Blur Gender Lines in Southeast Asia
From April 12 to April 15, I had the opportunity to take over The Photographers’ Gallery Instagram page, sharing images from my archive as well as writings on past bodies of work. I chose to highlight selections from my “Transformations; Crossdressers and Those who Love Them” and “The Gender Frontier” books, as well as images of activists such as Sylvia Rivera and Vicky West.
TRANSCENDENTS: SPIRIT MEDIUMS IN BURMA AND THAILAND
Available on Amazon and other book stores
Photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen
Essay by Eli Coleman, PhD
Preface by Zackary Drucker
DAYLIGHT BOOKS / NOVEMBER 14, 2017
“As a westerner, I will never understand or experience the mystery,
or the spirituality of mediums, or how they know things that I can never
know. They are otherworldly when possessed, impenetrable,
transgressive. I search for their spirits through my camera lens. I
watch and learn, and suspend disbelief.”
– Mariette Pathy Allen
Aperture Magazine
#229, Winter 2017
Future Gender
The Winter edition of Aperture magazine is a landmark issue
dedicated to the representation of transgender lives, communities, and
histories in photography. Guest edited by Zackary Drucker, the artist,
activist, and producer of the acclaimed television series Transparent,
“Future Gender” considers how trans and gender-nonconforming
individuals have used photography to imagine new expressions of social
and personal identity, from the nineteenth century to today.
12 x 9 1/4
inches
144 pages
978-1-59711-421-9
Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Thailand and Burma features photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen of the gender variance of participants in spirit cults.
By Allison Meier
A photographer sheds light into the anthropological and sexological perspective of spirit cults in Burma and Thailand.
by Kelly Caminero
