The New Yorker:

A new bill aims to enshrine the rights of trans and nonbinary Colombians. Camila Falquez takes pictures of the lives it could change.

By Ana Karina Zatarain

In April, Milo Mosquera led the photographer Camila Falquez and her team through the woods near Cali, Colombia, where he lives. By a bend in the Pance River he removed his shirt and walked into the water, Falquez wading close behind. Shoulder-deep, he turned to meet her lens.

In the resulting portrait, Mosquera appears like a carefully sculpted bust with a piece of red silk fastened on his head; his expression is not quite sad, but enigmatic, dignified, almost defiant—though a viewer may wonder whether the twin droplets on his cheeks are tears. “They’re water from the river,” Falquez told me. She was pleased with the arresting quality of the shot. A portrait, she believes, should stop viewers in their tracks, leaving them with questions the image cannot answer. Who is this person? What is their life like?

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