Lia Clay is a portrait and fashion photographer located in Brooklyn, NY. She was the first transgender woman to photograph a cover for Hearst Publications. Her portrait work over the last 4 years has been a love letter to the trans community, depicting models, friends, and family. Her work aims to portray the trans-feminine, without deconstruction. Instead of blatant representation, Miller seeks to portray her subjects in a narrative that goes beyond subjectivity, rather an expression of love and community working together to be seen in the light they truly exist. Often found on the streets of New York, the work is quiet theatre, in remembrance of the same streets that forged the same enigma that became the voice of trans resistance. In retrospect, Miller often turns the gaze away from her own personal identity, as it has mostly been a means of exploitation rather than exposition. In place of that remains the reminder that a trans woman can exist in an industry that has constantly been inspired by but not given opportunities to. In the bounds and leaps it takes to truly represent an entire community, it often takes small acts of quiet resistance to push forward. If anything, Clay hopes her work is just that, a small, unbridled rebellion.