The subjects in these portraits are sister-cousins. Cousins who are growing up like sisters. I chose Mia and Carina because they remind me a lot of my childhood growing up with my cousins as close as my sister is to me. That experience contributed so much to who I am today.

Often in my experience, the sister bond is so close and because of that bond sisters tend to stay close to home where the mother is. This dynamic then creates sister cousins because where the mother and sisters are, there are the children altogether. We then repeat the cycle creating big tight-knit families for generations to come.

Raising them like our plant relatives corn, bean, and squash commonly known as “the three sisters” because they nurture each other like family when planted together.