At C/O Berlin, three complementary exhibitions explore the representation of identity, gender, and sexuality in photography. The medium has both the power to stigmatize and to celebrate, and the relationship between queerness and photography yields a long history of both actions. Featured is the French director Sébastien Lifshitz’s collection of amateur photos of cross-dressers; original photographs of Casa Susanna, a safe space in the 1950s and 60s for cross-dressers and trans women in Hunter, New York; and photographs portraying the Virginia Wolf character Orlando, a section curated by Tilda Swinton, who played the role in Sally Potter’s 1992 film. “I see Orlando,” Swinton has said, “as a story about the life of a person who is striving to completely free himself from the constructs of gender and social norms.” This three-part show aims to capture those instances of freedom. —Clara Molot