Isabelle Bonnet

In the 1950s and 60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed - dressed as and living as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their self-expression. By Isabelle Bonnet and Sophie Hackett, ‘Casa Susanna' opens up that now-lost world.

The photographs – mostly discovered by chance in a New York flea market in 2004 – chronicle the experiences of men who dressed as women, gender nonconforming people, and transwomen in states of relaxation, experimentation, connection and joy.

Discover the book: https://shorturl.at/iwY68

Entretien avec Isabelle Bonnet, directrice de l'ouvrage «Home Sweet Home», titre de l'exposition présentée aux Rencontres d'Arles 2019. Des années 1970 à nos jours, le regard d'une trentaine de photographes sur la diversité sociale et culturelle des Britanniques, à travers leur habitat.