Erica and Krista, 2012
Jess T Dugan began making this series of photographs in 2011 after she moved from Boston to Chicago to begin graduate school. Finding herself alone in a new, big city, she stopped making work solely about gender and identity and moved to looking at intimacy and connection. Indirectly, however, this brought her back to exploring her own identity and how it is reflected through her relationships with others.
Self-portrait (muscle shirt), 2013;