Facing Yourself: A Photo Project Showcases Your Before And After

My Acceptance, a new online photo project, is taking out and proud members of the LGBT community and pairing them with interesting subjects: the people they feel they used to be.

Photographer Parker Austin seeks out willing participants, and creates two photos. The first embodies their feelings about their own lives growing up, while they were closted, or just not proud of who they were, and the second shows how they feel in the present.

Austin hopes that his project will take him across the country and back, and wants to document anyone and everyone who's willing to participate.

Check some of the work he's done already at myacceptance org, or if you're interested in participating in his project, reach him here.

--JORDAN SHAVAREBI