This talk examines visual tactics of survival and resistance that travestis and trans folks developed in response to military surveillance, violence, and detention during Argentine dictatorship (1976-83) and into democracy. To do so, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork with trans and travesti survivors of concentration camps and the contemporary artistic work of artist Germán Menna on carceral photography and studio portraiture. In doing so, the talk surfaces choreographies of survival that travestis and trans women developed to escape visual and carceral capture. As I suggest, these shared repertoires of resistance likewise surface submerged state structures of violence and terror against which travestis and trans women struggled, revising how we understand fascist state violence and its targets with consequences for US trans studies.