Most photographers aim to capture the present. But Japanese artist Miwa Yanagi uses snapshots to see the future. She asks her subjects - mostly Japanese women in their twenties and thirties - to imagine their lives in 50 years. After hearing each story, she re-creates the scene using stage props and makeup, then photographs it. The images are digitized and manipulated, developing surreal predictions: Yuka speeds across the Golden Gate Bridge with a young lover (shown); Eriko walks the runways of Paris, Milan, and Tokyo; Mineko circumnavigates the world as a 21st-century Amelia Earhart. Yanagi's large-scale photos - part portrait, part fantasy - form an ongoing series called My Grandmothers. "Yuka" is on display at the Whitney Museum's American Effect exhibit opening July 3.
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