About the Book
You Are You documents an annual weekend summer camp for gender-creative children and their families. This camp offers a temporary safe haven where children can freely express their interpretations of gender alongside their parents and siblings without feeling the need to look over their shoulders.
In 2007 I started attending camp with my son. It was with a great deal of courage in 2012, that the camp parents and children agreed to have selected images published as the cover story of the New York Times Magazine. This started what we all agreed was a very important and timely dialogue in a public forum. Since then this story has been published in 13 countries, in 10 languages, demonstrating a global interest in the predicament of gender-expansive youth.
In these brave, important photographs, Lindsay Morris captures gender-nonconforming children’s astonishing joy and predictable pain.
–Andrew Solomon, author of "Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity"
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About the Photographer
Lindsay Morris is a photographer best known for documenting events in her personal life and community. Morris received her BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art and discovered her fascination with photography during a yearlong Rotary Exchange program in South Africa. She continued her photographic studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The School for International Training, Kenya, and in Ann Arbor, MI.
Lindsay’s work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, TIME, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Scientific American, GEO, Marie Claire, and Elle. Her works are held in private and public collections such as The Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY, and The Newport Art Museum, RI.
Exhibitions include Paris Photo PX3 Award (2023), Leiber Collection, NY, ICP, NY; The Newport Art Museum, RI; Parrish Art Museum, NY; Hamburg Triennial, Germany; Fotofest, Houston; and Photoville Brooklyn, NY.
Morris is a producer of the 2016 BBC documentary, My Transgender Summer Camp and the upcoming documentary, Mom, I Have Something to Tell You (2024). She published her monograph, You Are You, documenting a summer camp for gender-expansive children in 2015 with Kehrer Verlag.
Morris is a TED Speaker whose talk from TEDWomen 2023 will be published in March of 2024. She is an Artist in Residence at The Watermill Center, Watermill, NY (2024), and a recipient of the NYFA JGS Photography Fellowship (2023).