Casually leaning against her kitchen counter, bathed in
natural light, Betsy looks directly at the camera, her gaze warm and steadfast.
Jess Dugan’s commanding portrait conveys Betsy’s gentle masculinity, a unique
and beautiful trait found throughout the series Every
breath we drew. Intimately exploring the subtleties of personal
identity formation and expression, Dugan’s photographs avoid straightforward
representation of definable gender and sexual identification.