Marquise, Manhattan, NY, 2018

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A color photographic print portrait of Marquise Vilsón, an actor, activist and man of trans experience, captured in Manhattan in 2018. Vilsón is pictured from the waist up, standing in front of a dark grey background. He wears a white shirt, unbuttoned to the waist to show his tattooed chest and two long silver necklaces. One has a key-shaped pendant and the other a medallion with [M] in the middle. He looks straight ahead at the camera. There are no inscriptions, front or back.

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