Transgender Job Fair

• Photographer
  Sally Peterson for Newsweek, Italy
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Portraits photographed at The L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center's Transgender Job Fair 2007, Saturday May 5th, 2007 in Plummer Park, Los Angeles, CA. The series was used as part of a cover story called The Mystery of Gender.

Cristina Vatielli was born in Rome in 1983. She studied History of Arts and then graduated at the Roman School of Photography. She began working in the photographic field as an assistant, specializing in images post-production.

Her works deals especially with social and historical issues. Since April 2006 she has been working on a long-term photographic project, the "Memory of the Civil Wars" and has begun to collaborate with Prospekt photoagency.

In 2007 she was selected to participate to Masterclass Reflexions with Giorgia Fiorio and she won WinePhoto International Photographic Contest.