With a collection of over 100 portraits featuring cis and trans women and non-binary people from many different corners of of her home city Melbourne, Suzanne has captured the inspiring, courageous, shy and outspoken. The impressive list includes many well-known artists, activists, authors, musicians, performers, photographers, comedians and fashion designers alongside boxers, human rights workers, massage therapists and those from all walks of life. There is also a Yarra Valley contingent where Suzanne lives. The series is a visual snapshot of the fierce, funny and extraordinary who inspires her world.

For Suzanne, this series quite simply gives her a place to respond to the inequality, discrimination, sexism, misogyny and gendered violence we experience every day in Australia.

Photography gives her life a rhythm, it sets the pace and provides her opportunities to just pause. Suzanne has this certain kind of magic that she brings to us through her camera lens. The camera allows her to see things without judgment and stretches her boundaries. It’s a tool to explore herself in a creative way, to not be in control or analyse and to grow as a person.

Due to Covid restrictions, in this 10th year, it hasn’t been possible for Suzanne to create new portraits. However, she is celebrating with a self-publication of the portraits, the individual’s responses to the importance of IWD and documentation of the events and poster paste ups from the project.