Covering subjects ranging from the Bedouins of the Negev Desert to religious sects in England´s West Midlands, photojournalist Kristin Lyseggen´s work highlights individuals within communities in the process of defining who and what they are. She has exhibited her work in Bangkok, Birmingham, Oslo, and London. Her photo documentaries have taken her to Morocco, Palestine, Israel, Thailand, and Cuba, as well as all corners of Europe. Kristin is based in Berkeley, California and Oslo, Norway. At the age of 22, Kristin Lyseggen was hired as a journalist on a newspaper starting up in her home city of Oslo, Norway. She soon discovered that she wanted to focus on otherness, as revealed through photography. She moved to study in Birmingham, England, where she found many subjects, including the Jesus Army, and a community of people in the West Midlands who meet and live as American cowboys every weekend. When she came upon a world of gender-fluid individuals, her experience left her wanting more. This led her to place an ad on a website when she returned to Norway in 2007, seeking participants in a project to illuminate the lives of people who consider themselves born in the wrong body. Little did she know that this would take her on journeys throughout the world. It also presented her with the challenge of how to present people who had made a leap from their natal gender, but appeared to the camera as normal as the next person. It was in their stories that she found her work for the next five years, the recently published book "The Boy Who Was Not A Lesbian and Other True Stories. 
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