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Lena Mucha

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In Between - Indigenous transgender women in Colombia
Location: Colombia/Germany
Nationality: German
Biography: Lena Mucha (b. 1983, Germany), is a freelance photographer based in Berlin. After graduating with a Master of Social Anthropology and Political Science from the University of Cologne in 2011, she started photography whilst working in Colombia with... MORE
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In Between - Indigenous transgender women in Colombia
Copyright Lena Mucha 2024
Date of Work Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Updated Jun 2018
Topics Community, Documentary, Latin America, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Transgender, Workers Rights

In the mountains of Colombia’s coffee region, colourful dressed transgender indigenous work on the lush green farms.

Back home in their communities they are not accepted due to their transgender identity. They are punished or forced to leave their villages. The Emberá, the ethnical group they belong to, are convinced that it is a contagious disease that the white men has passed them.

Nevertheless, on these coffee farms they are recognized. They work hard and every evening after returning from the fields, they wear their typical dresses, jewelery and transform into women. „I won´t go back to my community. Here I can finally be who I am and live my identity“, says Angelica one of the girls or primos“ (cousins), which they are called in the village.

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