2006 (negative); 2013 (print)

Carnival

Kelli Connell

American, born 1974

In her decade-long project Double Life, Connell appears to document an ongoing relationship between two uncannily similar women. But in fact she is depicting the same model twice, digitally combining several elaborately staged photographs into one seamless image.

Connell studied the portrait techniques used in documentary photography. She then brought that sensibility into her own imagined scenes, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy and between self and other.