Photographs by DPI Junior Serena Jara is a featured portfolio in the November/December issue of Photograph Magazine with comments by Elisabeth Biondi.
"Serena Jara is on a mission, and not only with her photographs. It is the way she lives, the way she looks, the way she dresses, and the friends she has. Together they are part of her identity. Jara is a trans-feminine artist who uses photography to express the struggles and pleasures she and her circle of friends experience. Music and fashion are creative outlets as well, but photography is the tool with which she fearlessly reveals herself.
The title for her most recent project, which is ongoing, is HRT (which stands for hormone replacement therapy). Taking photographs of herself and a circle of trans-feminine friends is a way of recording their physical and emotional transformation. Her pictures reflect the conviction that her way of being, although different from conventional sexual role models, is meaningful and fulfilling. Her gaze into the camera is defiantly direct, leaving no doubt that that she is determined to challenge negative reactions." Read more.