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Katheoy - Thailand's Third Gender
Title:Katheoy - Thailand's Third Gender
Laura in her tiny room in a slum, Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's Transgenders, "Katheoys" live in a kind of parallel universe within Thai society.


Benjamin Haselberger
Thailand



Biography: Benjamin Haselberger was born in 1973 in Germany. In 1997, before starting his photographic studies at University of Essen-Duisburg, his eye was drawn to concentration camps in Germany and Poland, which he extensively worked on while being an intern at VISUM Photo Agency. Then he worked in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma, before becoming a press photographer intern at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 2000. Finishing his 2nd studies at FAS-Berlin until 2006, he worked in Poland, postwar Bosnia, and Cambodia. He relocated to Bangkok in 2010 and in 2016 joined Redux Pictures.