Recent years have seen an unprecedented push by state legislatures to pass anti-LGBTQ bills across the United States. Hundreds of laws, mainly attempting to ban access to gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth and to ban discussions of gender identity and sexuality from high school curricula, have been introduced this year alone—a new and deeply troubling record.
 

In these times visual representation of queer love is as important as it has ever been, and in Transcend, award-winning Taiwanese American photographer Sandra Chen Weinstein showcases some of the work from a long career of photographing the LGBTQ community, especially the trans community. Weinstein’s own child recently came out as queer, trans, and nonbinary at the age of twenty-eight, and the core of the book is a series of photographs that focuses on their relationship.

 
Sandra Chen Weinstein is an award-winning documentary photographer. She has been nominated for the Prix Pictet and her work has been exhibited in the Recontres d’Arles, the Phillips Collection, the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Aperture Gallery, and more. She splits her time between Virginia and California.