I grew up in a relatively conservative family and community, where very clear structures of how a woman should live, look, behave, wed, reproduce and function in this world were strictly maintained. I found myself clearly “out of place”, not being able to live up to the expectations of my family or those of society.

Self acknowledgement, of who I am, of being different, of my choices and my appearance, came only many years later. Years of malaise and vulnerability. Feeling exposed even as a small child, pulling on his mothers dress, asked: “mom, is that a boy or a girl”...

I have ventured on a search for women like me to photograph.

We are girls who look like boys. There is so much beauty in that - inside and out.