Belén, María Belén Published in 1978 and edited

Published in 1978 and edited by Toni Morrison

Per Adolfsen

she began making the black and white and color portraits in Tender to create pictures in her own image

Its capacity to resist harsh climatic and topographic circumstances has been improved and adjusted through time and seems today close to perfection

with photography by Bisila Noha and Christian Cassiel

Belén, María Belén Published in 1978 and editedBeln, Mara Beln is a photobook that, through archival photographs, documents and autobiographical texts, narrates the life of Mara Beln Correa, a leading activist for transgender rights in Argentina and Latin America. Her personal story reflects the history of the LGBTQIA+ community in Latin America and the struggles it faced in the 1980s and 1990s. Her journey is one of collective struggle for the recognition of trans identities and expressions.