You may think that these photographs are nothing more than normal family portraits—but you’d be wrong.
The photographs are actually completely staged and composed of people who are complete strangers to each other.
Photographer Jamie Diamond found her ‘family members’ either through Craiglist or in public, and asked them to meet in rented hotel rooms, where she then posed them as a family.
Diamond is interested in the “shifting paradigm of the traditional family structure and in the paradox of the familiar”.
“The portraits are of actual people being themselves in an entirely new context; they intuitively follow the rules of the genre and the group they form for the camera ascribes them an identity”.
[via Feature Shoot, images via Jamie Diamond]