Copenhagen-born, New York–formed. Apprenticed under Mary Ellen Mark, documented a generation — Nina Mouritzen on the diary-like intimacy of portraiture, buskers in New Orleans, and why work and hanging out are always the same thing.

Every project, image, and story is about framing a series of questions that are deeply important to me as a human being.- Shirin Neshat

Alexandra Diez de Rivera places antique children's dresses directly onto photo-sensitive paper and exposes them to light. The skin cells and body oils of whoever wore those clothes, perhaps a child who is no longer small, perhaps no longer alive, seep into the surface and become part of the image permanently. That is not a metaphor for memory. It is memory, made literal through photographic chemistry. There is no digital equivalent. There cannot be.