




You Are You documents an annual weekend summer camp for gender non-conforming 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.
This body of work speaks out against intolerance while sharing with the viewer the beautiful spark of these children. I intend for the essay to serve as a guidepost for parents and the general public who struggle with their own uncertainties and prejudices with regard to the gender unique population.
This is a place of acceptance. A place which can serve as a model for a society in which the first generation of children able to express an openly gender variant childhood will come of age.
Artist Bios
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Lindsay Morris
Lindsay Morris is a photographer best known for documenting events in her personal life with an emphasis on community engagement. 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.
Morris is a TED Speaker whose talk from TEDWomen 2023 was published in March of 2024. She was a 2024 Artist-in-Residence at The Watermill Center, Watermill, NY, and a recipient of the 2024 NYSCA Grant and a 2023 NYFA JGS Photography Fellowship.
Morris’s work has been widely published in The New York Times Magazine, TIME, New York magazine, Scientific American, GEO, Marie Claire, and ELLE. Her works are held in private and public collections.
She is a producer of the 2016 BBC documentary, My Transgender Summer Camp, and the upcoming documentary, Mom, I Have Something to Tell You. She published her monograph, You Are You, documenting a summer camp for gender-expansive children, in 2015 with Kehrer Verlag and is traveling the country for her decade-later follow-up series, The Kids of Camp I Am.
Organizations
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United Photo Industries (UPI)
United Photo Industries (UPI) is a New York based nonprofit organization that works to promote a wider understanding of, and increased access to, the art of photography.
Since its founding in 2011, UPI has rapidly solidified its position in the public art landscape by continuing to showcase thought-provoking, challenging, and exceptional photography from across the globe. In its first seven years, UPI has presented the work of more than 2,500 visual artists in gallery exhibitions and public art installations worldwide.
You Are You
Featuring: Lindsay Morris
Curated by: Sam Barzilay
Locations
View Location Details Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 UplandsBrooklyn,
NY 11201
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