'Body Alchemy' was received with much positive acclaim and became a double 1996 Lambda Literary Award winner. ', documented Cameron's personal experience of transition from female to male, his life as a man, and the everyday lives of transmen he knew. Loren Rex Cameron's photography and writing was first published by Cleis Press in 1996. Loren Rex Cameron currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and continues his photographic work and lectures. Having no formal training, in 1993 Cameron taught himself the rudiments of photography and began to compassionately photograph his transsexual community. His interest in photography coincided with the beginning of his physical changes, as he documented his own transition. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1979 where he resided in the lesbian community until the age of twenty-six, when he confronted his discomfort about his female body and gender. Quitting school, Cameron left his home to travel the country seeking work as a construction laborer and other blue collar employment.

Sexually self-identifying as a lesbian at the age of sixteen, he encountered homophobic hostility in the small town where he lived. He moved to rural Arkansas in 1969 after his mother's death, where he describes himself as being raised as a tomboy on his father's farm. Loren Rex Cameron was born in Pasadena, California in 1959. Loren Rex Cameron (born 1959) is an American photographer, author and transsexual activist. For example, in the 2010 survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality it was found that out of the 6,450 respondents, 26 percent reported abusing alcohol just to cope with the discrimination they were experiencing.Occupation = Photographer, author, visual artist Because of this, substance abuse, intimate partner violence, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and self-injurious behaviors are all common in the transgender community. Discrimination, stigma, rejection by friends, family, partners, and spouses, racism, mistreatment by health care and mental health providers, and lack of financial resources all have a dramatic impact on people in the transgender community. If you look at national surveys conducted by organizations like the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National LGBTQ Task Force, you’ll see that mental and physical health issues impact people in the transgender community much more often than in the general population. You’ve dealt with a lot of secondary issues (on top of being transgender), such as an eating disorder, possible struggles with alcohol, etc.

Body Alchemy by Loren Cameron