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Blurring the boundaries between photographer and subject, these images are created collaboratively, as an effort to memorialize the interactions of my life while averting photography's (literal) objectification of people, moments, and relationships.

I ask a friend or stranger, after a modest but warm interaction, to photograph me and then, standing in the same places, I compose a photograph of my collaborator based on her framing of me. The composite of our two photographs becomes our memento.