“in the late ‘90s, justine kurland began photographing teenage girls in the american wilderness, attempting to reclaim this patriarchal space. her photographs portray these girls as fearless and free, gentle yet fierce—a radical community of sisterhood. ‘my runaways built forts in idyllic forests and lived communally in a perpetual state of youthful bliss’ writes kurland. ‘i wanted to make the communion between girls visible, foregrounding their experiences as primary and irrefutable.’”