Robert Knoth

Lux Photo Gallery

24 Nis 2008
30 Mayıs 2008

Neither men nor women. The red light district in the Pakistani city of Lahore is as famous in South Asia as the Amsterdam district by the same name is throughout the West. Strict rules about the separation of men and women in Muslim societies have determined men and boys to have more explicit roles in many branches of the entertainment industry including dance, theatre and the sex industry. Important in Lahore are Hijras, best defined as ‘neither men nor women’. Men born as transgender, hermaphrodite or of female gender, trapped inside male bodies.

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Using powerful attention to detail, Knoth’s portraiture and documentary work has received international acclaim including two World Press Photo awards, the Prague Photo Prize, the American PDN awards and multiple Dutch Silver Camera awards.