Me and my shadow

There is nothing obviously remarkable about this photo. It seems to depict an adult woman and a little girl - perhaps mother and daughter - standing outside of a store and eating bread. But they are not mother and daughter, or sisters, or friends, or strangers. They are the same person.

For Imagine Finding Me, Chino Otsuka's series of "double self-portraits," she inserts modern photos of herself into photos of herself as a child. Once you know what you're looking at, the effect is downright eerie. The younger Otsuka looks at the camera with the innocent eyes of a child, but there is a hint of artifice and mischief in the adult Otsuka's eyes. Otsuka becomes a kind of guardian angel to her child self, or her child self becomes a ghostly remnant following the adult Otsuka.

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