11.18.2009

Kelsey

I recently returned from a trip to Hawaii where I traveled to work on my project 49 & 50. This trip, I was working on the islands of Maui and Moloka'i. On our first night in Moloka'i I was at a restaurant talking with my partner Seth about the reported acceptance for the transgendered on Moloka'i that I had just been reading in my Hawaii travel book. Thinking this would be an interesting subject to capture we wondered how we might be able to tap into that culture. When only 5 minutes later in walks the most glamorous girl on the island - Kelsey. I asked the waitress if indeed that girl was transexual and she responded affirmatively. Moloka'i has a population of around 8000 so an actual gay or transgender community is pretty much non-existent - thus meeting Kelsey certainly was a stroke of good luck.