Mariette Pathy Allen (Alexandria, 1940) is a photographer for the transgender, genderfluid, and intersex communities and a writer.
She has published five books, Transformations: Cross-dressers and Those Who Love Them (1989), Masked Culture: The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade (1994), The Gender Frontier (2004),[1][2] TransCuba (2014)[3] and Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thailand (2017).
She aims to photograph misunderstood communities in the "daylight of everyday life" and capture humanity with their families, in their careers, at their homes.
[10] In her second book The Gender Frontier (2003), Allen documents the transgender community through political movements and public demonstrations.
Allen's career highlights include being the photographer for Lee Grant's 1984 documentary What Sex Am I?, Southern Comfort (2001), and Rosa von Praunheim's The Transsexual Menace.