Pieter Henket is a Dutch photographer living and working in New York City. His notable work includes Congo Tales, a photo series and book published by Random House in 2018, for which he photographed Congolese people acting out their mythologies in the Congo rainforest. His portraits of the people who call the Congo rainforest home made world news, and was featured on the front page of the New York Times Arts section and the front page of the New York Times International Edition.
Henket's newest photo series, Birds of Mexico, portrays a new generation that is challenging strict traditions around the expression of gender, sex, sexuality, and religion. They are daring – often at great personal risk in a culture that has lagged in equality and equal rights of all kinds – to embody the ultimate taboo of being themselves.