’s plans for a domestic portrait project were foiled by lockdown. Living alone, unable to go into his studio or enter other people’s homes, the RCA photography graduate took his camera and cycled the breadth of London taking portraits of other isolated trans people. With a quiet collected kindness, Lombardo’s shoots offered countless lonely trans people, including myself, a semblance of community via a safe encounter with another trans individual: him.
“Community means a lot to queer people, and trans people in particular: there’s no liberation without community. We rely on our community and many people only have that as family. When I think about the community, I can’t stop thinking about how I grew up in the suburbs of Buenos Aires as a working-class kid in the 80s. There was zero representation, zero role models. The only LGBTQ person I knew was Freddie Mercury.
“I often see the same kind of trans representation which focuses on those who fit into cisnormative ideas. I often wonder, who’s going to photograph the non-binary person who doesn’t look androgynous, the trans woman who doesn’t want to over-perform femininity? Of course I love photographing the non-binary androgynous person and the glamorous trans woman, but I don’t want to focus only on that. I want to show the spectrum.
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