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Rose Wood is a stage artist.

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Rose preparing for her night's cabaret performances and was then working with a flexible breast plate as a theatrical prosthetic, the large necklace would hide the area where it meets the neck.

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Rose backstage preparing for her performance,  Zipper theater, West 37th st., NYC.


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6:40 a.m. Rose, with two friends, is entering the Pagoda 100 building, where the clinic for surgery is located,

  Philadelphia area, Pennsylvania.

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Rose with leopard and zebra print robes is registering at the reception office of the clinic, before undergoing gender confirmation procedure.


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7:40 am, Rose with her surgeon a few minutes before surgery.




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Vitals, Rose about 90 minutes after surgery

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Rose at home with a statue of Ganesh, deity of beginnings. 7 days after returning from the clinic. Chelsea Hotel, West 23rd st., NYC

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Rose on stage at the cabaret 'The Box'

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Crossrroads of Stanton and Allen streets,

Lower East Side, NYC.

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Rose on the F subway to Coney Island, Brooklyn, to perform.




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Rose, before the show, In the Green room of the cabaret 'The Box' with fellow performers and a stage technician.

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Rose looking at Rose in the mirror of the dressing room of 'The Box'

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Rose owns and manages a hi-end fine wood furniture restoring studio in Manhattan.

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Rose as a blonde on a December night.

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Rose has just returning from Mexico, where she had travelled to, for facial reconstruction surgery.  Before this trip to Mexico, it had been an over 2 year interval since I had photographed Rose.


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Rose in a wig shop in the West 30's, NYC.

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Rose at home as a reclining Vitruvian figure

Chelsea Hotel, West 23rd st, NYC.