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SORAYA ZAMAN
Born in Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Land Economics, University of Technology Sydney, 2004
BOOKS
2019 - Zaman, Soraya, American Boys, Daylight Books. ISBN: I978-1942084686
“American Boys is a book of portraits capturing the trans-masculine community across the United States. The young Americans featured in these pages are united through their proud embrace of gender identity. Both tender and exciting these portraits are evidence of the rapidly expanding conceptions of gender sweeping the country.”
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - "PRIME", Artist-in-Residency show, SoMad Gallery, New York, NY
2022 - "Reconstruct (the) Normative", Fed Square, Melbourne, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 - "Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now", Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
2023 - "Queerography", Head On Festival, Sydney, Australia
2020 - LensCulture, Galerie Joseph, Paris, France
2020 - Breda Photo Festival, Breda, The Netherlands
2020 - Off Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
2019 - Featured Artist, Head On Festival, Sydney, Australia
AWARDS AND HONORS
2020 - Tokyo International Foto Awards - Gold winner, Book - People category
2020 - Moscow International Foto Awards - Silver, Book - People category
2019 - LensCulture Emerging Artist
BOOKS FEATURES
2020 - American Boys - featured in "New Queer Photography: Focus on the Margins", Verlag Kettler. ISBN: 9781584237563.
2020 - American Boys - Inclusion in LensCulture Book
2020 - American Boys - Inclusion in FishEye Book
RESIDENCIES
2023 - 2024 - Artist Residency, SoMad, New York, NY (1 year)
COLLECTIONS
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Four photographs from the series "American Boys", acquired (2025)
"AMARI (He/Him/His), Age 33, Mount Dora, Florida", 2017 • "CHELLA (He/Him/His), Age 18, Brooklyn, New York", 2017 • "TEDDY (He/Him/His), Age 26, Kansas City, Missouri", 2017 • "LAZARUS (They/Them/Theirs), Age 25, Albuquerque, New Mexico", 2017
PRESS (Selected)
2022 - Vogue.com: "Photographer Soraya Zaman’s American Boys Series Tells a New Story About Masculinity"
2021 - One37pm: "Photographer Soraya Zaman on Their Book 'American Boys' and the Power of Representation"
2020 - Konbini Cheese: "Rencontre : les visages pluriels des masculinités américaines documentés par Soraya Zaman"
2019 - Buzzfeed: "Redefine Your Expectations of Gender"
2019 - Metal Magazine: "Head On Photo Festival 2019: What You Can't Miss"
2019 - PDN: "Photo of the Day: American Boys"
2019 - FTM Magazine: "Interview: Photographer Soraya Zaman"
2019 - The Daily Beast: "These Photographs Capture the Truths About Trans-masculine Identities"
2019 - Document Journal: "5 photographers on how masculinity informs their practice"
2019 - Musee: "Book Review: American Boys"
2019 - Bird in Flight: "American Boys: Портреты трансгендерных мужчин"
2019 - i-D: "see tender portraits of trans men and non-binary people on instagram"
2019 - MTV: "Soraya Zaman's 'American Boys' Captures The Diversity Of Transmasculine Communities"
2019 - The Guardian: "'Finally, I'm living my true self': portraits of trans masculine people"
2019 - Out: "11 Beautiful Portraits From Soraya Zaman's 'American Boys”
2019 - Them: "These Intimate Portraits Show the Emotional Journey of Transitioning"
2019 - Fisheye: "American Boys, portraits non binaires"
