Her work is centrally focused on varying themes of the human condition. Currently based in New York, Ying is a member of the Brooklyn-based photographer collective MJR. This work is from her series, ‘Boys Girls Boys’, a glimpse into the life of a ladyboy, Sri Vet, in Cambodia. Of this work she says, ‘Sri Vet is a Khmer ladyboy. She has not considered herself male since she was 14 years old. Tolerated by the local community, her only real avenues of income are hairdressing, bar work at the now defunct local ladyboy bar and prostitution. She shares a single room and one double bed with 3 other ladyboys-they take turns on the floor on a rotational basis. Ostracized as a woman as well as a man, therefore unable to work in either capacity, Sri Vet considers her role as sex worker inescapable. She is also an incurable romantic’. More