Elliot, Melbourne, Australia, 2018. Beyond our bodies is a feminist project about female, trans masculine and non binary people's struggles in the contemporary world. It's about giving space for alternative voices to emerge and empowering marginalized bodies. It was shot between 2017 and 2019 between Australia, Thailand and France. This project helped me come to terms with my own gender fluidity that I was questioning at the time, and the camera was a bridge as well as a mirror. While gender roles and representations are slowly shifting in modern societies, it is important to redefine terminology and show people who break the rigidity of the binary boundaries in their daily lives, by challenging normative gender structures enforced by society since they were born. This diary of encounters is mostly captured in the intimacy of people’s homes, because it's a safe space for them to express their truth, beyond restrictive binaries that are unfit to their complexities. It’s about holding space from the private sphere into the outside world, filling it with personal narratives. Showing that in the end, gender is mostly a performance, and that the boxes made by men will always be too limitative for most of us. In order to change the dominant narrative, bringing visibility to non conforming bodies is only first step. Photo by Su Cassiano/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM