In Marisa Chafetz’s series, We are Ugly but We Have the Music, the photographer documents her extended, communal family and the impact change and loss has had on the clan. “I was raised alongside two other families and throughout the past few years our family unit has faced a lot of hardship and fallen apart quite a bit,” explains New York-based Marisa. “When I first started making this work, I was interested in documenting our uncertain present, since we are neither completely together nor completely apart. About halfway through making the work I realised I was really making this to capture whatever magic still exists between all of us, and to pay homage to the beauty of my childhood and how I was raised.”
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