What is family? How is formed? How does it function? What behaviors, attitudes, and actions make a “mother” or a “father?” In a world inundated with personal photographs, how do images of other families shape our ideas about what our own family should look, act and feel like? My work has grown from a continued interest in the dynamics of relationships, specifically those formed within a shared domestic space. For the project Black Mountain, I photographed my family after the arrival of my daughter in Black Mountain, North Carolina. In this unfamiliar territory, everything was improvisation.
