Male, Female, Pain (2023), Andy Shaham

 

Andy Shaham started experiencing extreme period pain at age 11, and couldn’t understand why everyone else could handle their periods so well when he couldn’t even get out of bed. At age 16, he got his endometriosis diagnosis.

 

These prints were created during his high school studies. The project, ‘Male, Female, Pain’, explores the complexity of being a trans man while having a chronic illness usually associated with womanhood and femininity.