All that is Man

Portraits of bisexual men, each paired with a statement he wrote himself and photographed in a place he finds beautiful. A collaborative look at a largely invisible community, and at what masculinity looks like on its own terms.

All That Is Man is a photobook and exhibition project pairing portraits of bisexual men with short first-person statements each subject writes himself about his lived experience. Twenty of a planned thirty portrait-and-statement pairings are complete.

Bisexual people are the largest part of the LGBTQ+ community. According to Gallup’s 2026 survey, nearly 9% of U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ+, and almost 60% of them are bisexual. Yet bi men remain among the least visible people in that community. Far fewer men than women say they are bisexual, they are often doubted by straight and gay people alike, and many hide part of themselves to stay legible to the people around them. Bi men are everywhere, but they are almost never pictured as themselves. This project is an attempt to change that, one man at a time, in his own words.

The process is collaborative by design. Each man chooses where he is photographed, based on what he finds beautiful: a landscape, a room, a street, a place that holds meaning for him. That choice shapes the portrait as much as I do. His written statement then sits beside the image. The pairing refuses to let the photograph speak for him, and the text cannot stand without his face and his chosen place. Together they ask what masculinity looks like when a man is allowed to define beauty, desire and himself on his own terms.

As a woman photographing men, I am interested in turning the male gaze around. The gaze here is neither mine alone nor the viewer’s; it is shared with the subject, who decides how and where he is seen. The project grows out of two decades of work on gender, identity and communities pushed to the margins, including my 2019 book Outside & In Between, on the non-binary community.

The final ten portraits are meant to widen the picture. I am seeking men from the Midwest and South, younger men, more trans men, and men from lower-income backgrounds, with travel planned to Nebraska, Montana, New Orleans and Atlanta. The aim is a body of work that reflects the full range of the community rather than its most visible corner.

The completed work will be shown as a large-scale print exhibition in New York City in spring.