Happiness can be the freedom to be yourself without shame. This should be a right for all, but for someone it cannot be taken for granted. Shinta Ratri, an LGBT activist, is the director of a Koranic school for transgender and transexual people in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in the country with largest Muslim population in the world. She opened up this center to give the students self confidence. This is a meeting point for anyone who wants to pray without incurring in gender discrimination. "Everyone has the right to observe their religion in their own way. Being a transgender is not a sin" says Shinta. For her happiness is being able to live like a woman; a Muslim woman who can pray wearing mukena, and who was able to be married twice. She is proud to be who she is and she wants to be an example for all. She expresses herself in many small daily gestures: wearing make-up in the morning, going out with friends, enjoying the family's affection, being part of the community where she lives showing proudly a male body formed to be a woman.
Fulvio Bugani was born in Bologna in 1974. He founded his own studio in 1999 – Foto Image. Bugani has been a freelance professional photographer for over 20 years, working with associations and NGOs. He actively collaborates with MSF (Medecins Sans Frontier) and Amnesty International, for which he has participated in several projects on human rights, illegal immigration and the right to housing. His work has been published in international magazines:TIME, LFI. In 2015 he was awarded at the World Press Photo and in 2016 at the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. He is an international Leica Ambassador.
