About
I am an author and have received numerous awards as a photojournalist. I have also exhibited my work in galleries throughout the U.S. before opening my own gallery on the coast of Maine. I published my first non-fiction book in 2002. I have been published in various newspapers and periodicals.
I am currently in the final editing stages of a memoir that I expect to pitch to an agent in the coming months. I am also compiling a retrospective of my photographic work which I hope to publish in book form as a monograph to serve as a companion book to the memoir.
Featured Work
The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals
Dean Kotula's non-fiction book, The Phallus Palace: female to male transsexuals (Alyson Publications 2002) is an open, informed, honest, shocking, even confrontational, but ultimately healing, exploration of the social, historical, medical, and psychological concerns of transsexuality. Apart from Kotula's own autobiographical writing, information was sourced from interviews he conducted and a wide swathe of contributors. The work was groundbreaking in that the series of surgical photographs Kotula took for the book were the first ever taken and published (outside of medical journals) that detailed three agonizingly invasive sex reassignment surgeries from start to finish. These documents represent all methods of sex reassignment in practice and available to the female to male transsexual at that time. The book's primary purpose was to educate the public about this very specific population (a small percentage of the greater population known as transgender) and to provide a resource for those in need.
