Somewhere between a doll and a dog
Ezekiel (2025)“Are you a doll?” a friend once asked Ezekiel at a late-night afters. “Somewhere between a doll and a dog,” they replied - a phrase that would become the title of their most ambitious body of work to date: a 240-page diaristic and diasporic archive of transness.
Created over three years across the UK, the Philippines, Europe, and the USA, the photobook is a reckoning with masculinity, fear, and belonging. Ezekiel turns the camera on strangers, lovers, friends, family, and themself - blending diary fragments, archival photographs, and contemporary imagery into a body of work that invites viewers into moments of raw intimacy and fleeting encounters, forming what the artist calls “the chaos and beauty of transness.” Through this lens, Ezekiel attempts to articulate a new language for transness - one that moves beyond the constraints of the Western binary to explore how gender is performed and understood across cultures.
Somewhere between a doll and a dog arrives as both an act of resistance and an invitation - offering an unflinching vision of freedom where fear, intimacy, and joy can coexist.
The production of Somewhere between a doll and a dog was made possible with the support of Studio Moross, with darkroom support by Dot Imaging.
Softcover
240 Pages
21.6 × 27.9 cm
First Edition