The first monograph by Carla Williams. Made in private between 1984 and 1999 and kept mostly to herself for more than thirty years, the pictures form a complete self-portrait of a young queer Black woman exploring the realm of her own possibility. Williams began the black-and-white and colour portraits at eighteen, while studying at Princeton, wanting to make pictures in her own image: her mind was filled in equal measure with the canonical images of a male-driven history of the medium and with the posing women she had found in her father's pornography collection. Using her own body, she made the portraits she had never seen.