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Kane C. Andrade uses art to effect change. The San Francisco-based photographer and creative producer is also a military veteran and transgender man, and his work centers and uplifts other members of his community.

“I like to shoot what I know,” Andrade attests. “As a Latino trans man, I wanted to share an idea of my experience and my journey vicariously through the casting of this shoot. It’s important to me to highlight my community and in turn specifically to highlight trans men of color.”

In this project for , Andrade took portraits of fellow Bay Area residents Gray Anderson, Jaime Serra dos Santos, and Xavier-Dominic Williams on an iPhone 14 Pro Max as a celebration of intersectional lives. And he shares advice with others on how to create art with the tools at hand to fight against repression. Moreover, Andrade’s subjects

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