“Gender Trouble is a collection of photographs that challenge the notion of gender identity. My
work posits the suggestion that true feminism requires real equality – and how there should be no
hierarchy between the sexes. By merging and blending cisgender stereotypes, I seek to free gender
from its bipolar shackles to demonstrate that gender, like sexuality, is fluid and non-binary.”

by Anna Sampson

@annaconstance_

“For centuries, the heterosexual male gaze has both dominated and defined popular culture. Erotic
imagery and pornography have contributed to an idealized beauty aesthetic that has, over time,
objectified and commodified women for the gratification of male sexual desire. I have tried to
challenge and subvert this orthodoxy with a playful riff on role-playing.“

“I hope to redefine erotic photography by casting the male in ironic re-framings of conventional
pornographic tropes. My aim in fetishizing the male in this way is to transcend and negate gender
ideals, thereby reclaiming the female and non-heterosexual gaze, too. I want to empower and
celebrate the “other” and this work is my attempt at closing that gap; to challenge cis-sexism in our
community and those who feel most threatened by deviation from the orthodoxy.”