Lex Barberio is a trans nonbinary photographer who mostly works with queer subjects. They are also an advertising professional who has worked with big-name brands. Many of Barberio’s portraits are highly stylized in terms of the setting in which the sitter poses. Dramatic lighting and eye-catching colors are dominant themes in their work. Their most well-known series is The Ambisextrous in which they photographed subjects three times when the subject is presented as masculine, androgynous, and feminine. The portraits are close-ups and contain only the subject’s face and sometimes hands. Bright neon colors reflect off the subjects’ faces creating a continuity between each set of portraits. With this series, Barberio plays on the idea of gender as a performance but also as a necessary medium of expression, combining the serious nature of gender with its more playful aspects.