Homograph a collaboration born of our relationship; we are two trans photographers who fell in love and began making images together using medium-format 120mm film, using a hybrid analog-digital process.

When Xan purchased a house from the 1850’s in Brattleboro, Vermont, we began taking black-and-white pictures of each other in her antique attic. When we developed the film (in the bathroom), Johanna’s portraits of Xan stood out. In them we see a contemporary image of transwomanhood, set in a past when safety could be found in an attic, during a present of extreme repression. We wanted more of these portraits, so we extended the project to include other trans women close to us, and it’s still in progress. 

The process of making these images connects the past, present, and future. The portraits are chemically recorded in archival silver in response to light, and are inherently and inseparably physical, with no opportunity for distortion by generative AI. We print the portraits digitally, at two feet by two feet, allowing transfemininity to take up space, making it clear that our continued existence is unavoidable, inevitable; a statement of gender’s mutable form. You can follow our work at https://www.instagram.com/homo.graph/.