Legendary: Inside the House Ballroom Scene (Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography)

"Gerard H Gaskin's radiant color and black and white photographs take us insude the culture of house balls, underground events where gay and transgender men and women, mostly African and Latino, come together to see and be seen. At balls, high-spirited late night pageants, members of particular 'houses' - the House of Blahnik, the House of Xtravaganza - 'walk' competing for trophies in categories based on costume, attitude, dance moves, and 'realness'."