[4] At this time, Cameron quit school and left home to seek work as a construction worker and other blue collar employment.
He had been in poor health due to congestive heart failure, and his sister told The New York Times that he had become withdrawn from family and friends.
[10] His images have also been exhibited in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, in Santiago, Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and in Mexico City.
[citation needed] They have been published in numerous books such as Constructing Masculinity: Discussions in Contemporary Culture and Leslie Feinberg's Transgender Warriors.
In a 2016 article, Cathy Hannabach said that his choice to work alone and feature the bulb serves as a commentary on the self-made aspect of being transsexual.
[11] Hannabach wrote that Cameron's photography invoked issues of queer bioethics, and was intended to remove the clinical view of transsexual bodies and redefine them as not in need of a cure.
[1] Body Alchemy documented Cameron's personal experience of transition from female to male, his life as a man, and the everyday lives of trans men he knew.