What We Love: Half-Drag

The lashes, the lipstick and the wigs. That’s usually what we think of when we picture our favorite queens (looking at you, Brittany Lynn!). But one photographer is taking a deeper look at the men behind the divas. Leland Bobbé‘s “Half-Drag” is an incredible photo series that captures some of New York’s drag performers – both in makeup and in their natural states.

On his website, Bobbé, a portrait, lifestyle and street photographer, says the idea for the series sprang from his ongoing work documenting the city’s burlesque performers. “My intention with Half-Drag is to capture both the male and the alter-ego female side of these subjects in one image,” says the photographer.

Check it out:

Chandelier Period by Leland Bobbé

Azraea by Leland Bobbé

Miss Fame by Leland Bobbé

Click here to view more images from the series.