{"id":1343,"date":"2016-02-03T19:01:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T08:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambushgallery.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2016-02-03T19:01:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T08:01:30","slug":"inside-out-portraits-of-cross-gender-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambushgallery.com\/inside-out-portraits-of-cross-gender-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Out: Portraits of Cross-Gender Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 12 years, Dutch photographer Sarah Wong has documented the lives and experiences of a group of children who have transitioned &#8212; or are in the process of transitioning &#8212; to live as their authentic selves. Wong shared the images with the world through a book called <em>Inside Out: Portraits Of Cross-Gender Children<\/em><i>, <\/i>published in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Wong&#8217;s\u00a0work seeks to empower the children\u00a0as they explore their humanity. As Sarah explains, \u201cWhile portraying these children I focused very much on their souls, beyond gender. And so we discovered we were on the same journey. They were looking for a new identity and I was exploring a yogi lifestyle. Our bodies were the vehicles of the souls. Because of this so-called \u2018soul-conscious\u2019 awareness, these kids are very much connected to the heart and are very compassionate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See the\u00a0full body of work at HUMAN 3.0 as part of our Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras exhibition from 6 February until 6 March, 12-8pm daily. Visit the\u00a0HUMAN 3.0 web page\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ambushgallery.com\/events\/human3-0\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 12 years, Dutch photographer Sarah Wong has documented the lives and experiences of a group of children who have transitioned &#8212; or are in the process of transitioning &#8212; to live as their authentic selves. Wong shared the images with the world through a book called Inside Out: Portraits Of Cross-Gender Children, published in 2011. Wong&#8217;s\u00a0work seeks to empower the children\u00a0as they explore their humanity. As Sarah explains, \u201cWhile portraying these children I focused very much on their souls, beyond gender. And so we discovered we were on the same journey. They were looking for a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambushgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambushgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambushgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambushgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambushgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ambushgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambushgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambushgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambushgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}