“In reality, all we photographers photograph is ourselves in the other — all the time”. Evelyn Hofer (1922–2009) was a German-American portrait and documentary photographer. Unlike the dynamic, hand-held cameras favored by most of her contemporaries, Hofer primarily worked with a tripod-mounted, large-format camera, a process requiring considerable patience and attention. Hofer invariably photographed her subjects where she encountered them, to afford them a familiarity with their surroundings,