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Thrilled to see @thenewpress book featured in the @guardian celebrating the powerful work of @asafeghalib. Through intimate, monochromatic portraits of LGBTQIA+ immigrants in Britain, Asafe captures resilience, pride and belonging — transforming his collaborators into their “rawest, most beautiful and most empowered” selves.

‘Shine’ joins @diversehumanity, a groundbreaking photobook series from @thenewpress, created in collaboration with the @arcuslgbtq and @ewsdesign.

Shine: Portraits in Queer Resilience, Embracing New Dimensions by Asafe Ghalib @asafeghalib
Essay by Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin @prishita_eloise (they/them)
Paperback / 160 pages
Published by @thenewpress

#shine #asafeghalib ‘Question the status quo!’: Britain’s queer immigrants – in pictures
Asafe Ghalib photographs his friends and fellow artists with one aim – to transform them into their ‘rawest, most beautiful and most empowered’ form

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Happy New Year wishes to all!

Featuring a wonderful portrait of LEXII from “SHINE: Portraits in Queer Resilience, Embracing New Dimensions” by Asafe Ghalib. The latest volume (Vol. 20) in the renowned “Diverse Humanity” photobook series — designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS) and published by The New Press — with the support of Arcus Foundation.

🏳️‍🌈 #AsafeGhalib #SHINE #DiverseHumanity #EWSdesign #TheNewPress 🏳️‍🌈

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Most of the portraits in ‘Shine’ focus on a single subject, each image a study in individuality and emotional truth.

Alongside the predominantly monochromatic sepia and black-and-white photographs, the book also includes @asafeghalib’s editorial collaborations with queer magazines and campaigns in vivid color. These works, while produced in professional contexts, retain the intimacy of the artist’s earlier self-initiated series ‘Immigrants,’ which began in Ghalib’s own living room.

In their accompanying essay, @prishita_eloise (they/them), an LGBTQ+ rights campaigner and author of ‘Roses for Hedone,’ situates Ghalib’s work within a long lineage of queer visual storytelling, describing it as a practice that holds both defiance and tenderness—revealing figures who inhabit the space between vulnerability and strength.

In today’s climate of escalating anti-immigrant sentiment and ongoing attacks on queer and trans rights worldwide, ‘Shine’ stands as a necessary intervention. As Maheshwari-Aplin observes, the word “alien,” once enshrined in U.S. law to describe noncitizens, “is now recognized as dehumanizing language that stigmatizes migrants and refugees.” Against this backdrop, Ghalib’s photography reclaims humanity through visibility.

#AsafeGhalib #ShinePortraitsinQueerResilienceEmbracingNewDimensions #PrishitaMaheshwariAplin #TheNewPress #DiverseHumanity Elliott by Asafe Ghalib (they/them). From the new book ‘Shine: Portraits in Queer Resilience, Embracing New Dimensions’, published by The New Press, 9 December 2025.

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For @asafeghalib, this project is rooted in lived experience. Raised in a religious family in Brazil, they left their homeland in search of self-expression and safety. Their photographs—reminiscent of black-and-white newspaper photography and classic portraiture—depict friends, artists, and community members, each image serving as both confrontation and celebration.

“My work aims to capture people within a historical context in order to bring awareness to the long-resisting and historically misrepresented Queer community,” writes Ghalib. “It is important to me that my work provokes, informs, and creates a safe space for the viewer through the exploration of identity.”

‘Shine’ joins @diversehumanity, a groundbreaking photobook series from @thenewpress, created in collaboration with the @arcuslgbtq and @ewsdesign.

The series highlights the global breadth of LGBTQ+ lives and the many ways communities have redefined belonging across borders. In keeping with this mission, ‘Shine’ turns its gaze to queer immigrants in Britain—people whose search for safety and freedom often begins in exile. Through the images in this book, Ghalib invites viewers to confront prejudice and to see immigration not as division, but as an affirmation of human dignity and the right to self-expression.

Shine: Portraits in Queer Resilience, Embracing New Dimensions by Asafe Ghalib @asafeghalib
Essay by Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin @prishita_eloise (they/them)
Paperback / 160 pages
Published by @thenewpress (December 9, 2025)

#AsafeGhalib #ShinePortraitsinQueerResilienceEmbracingNewDimensions #PrishitaMaheshwariAplin #TheNewPress #DiverseHumanity Lexii by London-based photographer Asafe Ghalib. From the new book “Shine: Portraits in Queer Resilience, Embracing New Dimensions”, published by The New Press on 9 December 2025.

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@asafeghalib illuminates queer immigrant life in Britain with a powerful new photobook by @thenewpress – out today!

“The power and intensity of Asafe’s work are recognizable from the first instance of setting eyes on their images. The activism that underpins it makes for an even more impactful aesthetic.”—@izaradz, @bjp1854.

Brazilian-born, London-based photographer Asafe Ghalib (they/them) unveils ‘Shine: Portraits in Queer Resilience, Embracing New Dimensions,’ a deeply personal collection of photographs exploring the lives of LGBTQIA+ immigrants in Britain. Through approximately seventy striking black-and-white, sepia, and color portraits, Ghalib celebrates resilience, visibility, and belonging among those who live at the intersections of queerness, migration, and identity.

Shine: Portraits in Queer Resilience, Embracing New Dimensions by Asafe Ghalib @asafeghalib
Essay by Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin @prishita_eloise (they/them)
Paperback / 160 pages
Published by The New Press @thenewpress (December 9, 2025)

#AsafeGhalib #ShinePortraitsinQueerResilienceEmbracingNewDimensions #PrishitaMaheshwariAplin #TheNewPress #DiverseHumanity Brazilian-born, London-based photographer Asafe Ghalib (they/them) unveils Shine: Portraits in Queer Resilience, Embracing New Dimensions (The New Press, December 2025), a deeply personal collection of photographs exploring the lives of LGBTQIA+ immigrants in Britain. Through approximately seventy striking black-and-white, sepia, and color portraits, Ghalib celebrates resilience, visibility, and belonging among those who live at the intersections of queerness, migration, and identity.

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Huge congratulations to @sandra.chen.weinstein whose photobook ‘Transcend’ (@thenewpress, 2024) has just been shortlisted for the @luciefoundation Photo Book Prize 2025 in the First Book category. ✨

The Lucie Photo Book Prize recognizes outstanding achievements in photobook publishing and celebrates the art of the printed photographic narrative. Congratulations to Sandra on this well-deserved recognition — a testament to her powerful vision and dedication to storytelling through photography.

Winners will be announced at the upcoming exhibition at @the_reef_la in Downtown Los Angeles on November 22, where you can experience ‘Transcend’ in person! #Transcend #SandraChenWeinstein

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❤️ Pamela Sneed

From “Believable: Traveling with My Ancestors” photography book by renowned photographer and queer activist Lola Flash. Published by The New Press and designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios.

“Believable”, the debut photobook by Lola Flash, showcases an extraordinary body of work that Flash has created over four decades.
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Photography by Lola Flash –> @flashnine9
Book design & visual editing by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS) –> @ewsdesign
Introduction by Renée Mussai —> @mussairenee
Published by The New Press –> @thenewpress
Diverse Humanity photobook series –> @diversehumanity
Arcus Foundation –> @arcuslgbt
Portrait of Pamela Sneed —> @pamela_sneed

#LolaFlash #EWSdesign #loveislove #theNewPress #photobook #DiverseHumanity #BenWoodward #bookseries #booklover #bookphotography #portraitphotography #lgbtlife #lgbtq #ArcusFoundation #igreads #Believeable #socialjustice #queerartistofcolor #queerphotograher #reneemussai #inclusion #blacklesbians #afrofuturism #Flash #PamelaSneed #queericon

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Exciting News! 🌈📸

We are thrilled to share that ‘Transcend: Freedom to Love’ by Sandra Chen Weinstein has just been featured in The Guardian! 🎉

This deeply personal photobook celebrates the strength, resilience, and beauty of the LGBTQ+ community, particularly the trans community, through Sandra’s empathetic and striking photography.

The first image is especially meaningful: Sandra herself, pictured with her child, Lee, who came out as non-binary at twenty-eight. The book features 66 poignant portraits of individuals, couples, and parent-child duos, accompanied by 27 stories from queer individuals and their loved ones. These narratives delve into the often complex process of coming out and the varying responses from parents, most of which are heartwarmingly accepting.

This feature in The Guardian is a wonderful recognition of the significance of Weinstein’s work during these critical times.

Check out the feature and join us in celebrating Transcend: Freedom to Love!

#TranscendBook #SandraChenWeinstein

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❤️ Debbie Millman. From “Lived Experience: Reflections on LGBTQ Life” by Delphine Diallo.
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“… I like making things. I’m happiest when I’m creating things. It could be a meal. It could be a piece of art. It could be a lesson plan. It could be a podcast…”
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Comprised of over sixty beautiful portraits of people from all walks of life, together with interviews, “Lived Experience” honors and celebrates their rich, complex, and varied lives, offering unforgettable stories and intimate reflections on love and loss, on family and friendship, on building community, and on the importance of remembering the past and the LGBTQ movement’s radical roots.
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Photography by Delphine Diallo –> @delphinediallo
Book design & visual editing by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS) –> @ewsdesign
Published by The New Press –> @thenewpress
Diverse Humanity photobook series –> @diversehumanity
Arcus Foundation –> @arcuslgbt
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#DelphineDiallo #EWSdesign #loveislove #theNewPress #photobook #DiverseHumanity #bookseries #photography #booklover #design #bookphotography #portraitphotography #lgbtlife #lgbtq #ArcusFoundation #igreads #LivedExperience #wisdom #socialjustice #inclusion #DebbieMillman #creativity

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Sandra Chen Weinstein’s new book “Transcend: Freedom to Love” will also be presented at PhotoNOLA Photobook Fair this Saturday, Dec 14. It is a great chance to see the book and meet with the photographer.

In these times visual representation of queer love is as important as it has ever been, and in Transcend, award-winning Taiwanese American photographer Sandra Chen Weinstein showcases some of the work from a long career of photographing the LGBTQ community, especially the trans community. Weinstein’s own child recently came out as queer, trans, and non-binary at the age of twenty-eight, and the core of the book is a series of photographs that focuses on their relationship.

#SandraChenWeinstein #TranscendFreedomToLove Sandra Chen Weinstein’s new book “Transcend: Freedom to Love” will be presented at PhotoNOLA Photobook Fair on Dec 14, 2024

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Tomorrow, Dec 5th, join @sandra.chen.weinstein at @la_centerofphoto Los Angles Center of Photography and check out her new book, Transcend: Freedom to Love. In today’s climate, with the rise of anti-LGBTQ legislation across the United States, this deeply personal book is a ray of hope.

Inspired by her child, Lee, who came out as non-binary at 28, Weinstein embraced Lee’s identity and created a portfolio of photographs to push back against the neglect and intolerance of a prejudiced society. The interviews in the book delve into the often complex process of coming out and include the responses from parents, most of whom are heartwarmingly accepting. Among these accounts is Sandra’s own story. Don’t miss this event.

#SandraChenWeinstein #Transcend #Transcendbook

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Tomorrow, Nov 14 join photographer Sandra Chen Weinstein for Author Talk about her new photography book «Transcend: Freedom to Love» at The Academy SF.

The book features 66 poignant portraits of individuals, couples, and parent-child duos, accompanied by twenty-seven stories from queer individuals and their loved ones. These narratives delve into the often complex process of coming out and include the responses from parents, most of whom are heartwarmingly accepting. Among these stories is a deeply personal account of Weinstein and her child Lee, adding yet another layer of intimacy to this powerful collection.

Coinciding with Transgender Awareness Week, the event is open to all. Please see the details in the stories, or visit @the_academy_sf’s website or here: @sandra.chen.weinstein.

Nov 14, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM PST
The Academy SF,
The address: 2166 Market St, San Francisco,
CA 94114, USA

#SandraChenWeinstein #TranscendFreedomToLove #Transcendbook Sandra Chen Weinstein presents her new book, Transcend: Freedom to Love

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