Children in costumes become someone else: channeling the essence of the character they’re portraying. This collection is of a photoshoot with a local school, to document the kids' "biography day," a showcase of laboriously crafted book reports, poster presentations, and research papers on a chosen "hero."

What you’ll see here is not about the historical figures. It’s about the internal experience of the kids being… someone else.

A third-grader squares her shoulders beneath a borrowed lab coat. For five minutes, she is Marie Curie—not pretending, but becoming. Her voice steadies. Her gestures grow precise.

In this moment between childhood and what waits beyond, I see two people at once: the girl with untied shoelaces and the woman she's already practicing to be.