My approach was not to duplicate the original poses, but to update them to reflect our complex contemporary lives: listening to an iPod, chatting on a cellphone, filming a tragic street incident, playing solitaire, eating fast food, taking pain killers, etc. Along with a wide range of emotions from suffering to greed to anger to bravado to “whatever, the series, a collaboration with performance artist LuLu LoLo, also reflects the uneasy hope and politics of the post-9/11 years. LuLu's brilliant improvisatory skill and always expressive facial gestures challenge viewers to identify and objectify the beauty and absurdities of our media-saturated lives. These photographs, originally created in 2009, have never been formally exhibited, and to honor Nadar's 200th birth year anniversary, I hope to show them in his native Paris someday soon.