Showroom is a collection of images Champassak made in Tamil Nadu, India, focusing on an annual festival attended by thousands of hirja or eunuchs, a transgender community who are permanently trapped in an identity and social class that is seen as both sacred and shunned by Indian society. Champassak’s photographs bear witness to the events as they reach their height in a village called Villuppuram where the hirja come each year to be ceremonially wed to Mohini, the female form […]

Categories: Documentary, Features • Tags: documentary photography, India festival, Kahmann Gallery, photography, social documentary, Tiane Doan na Champassak, transexual, Unseen Amsterdam 2013