The Endurance of Sisterhood: 40 Portraits in 40 Years

The Brown Sisters: 1975-2014

“Throughout this series, we watch these women age, undergoing life’s most humbling experience… With each passing year, the sisters seem to present more of a united front. Earlier assertions of their individuality — the arms folded across the chest, the standing apart — give way to a literal leaning on one another, as if independence is no longer such a concern…”

Full article and all 40 portraits here: Susan Minot ‘Forty Portraits in Forty Years’ The New York Times Magazine

Photograph by Nicholas Nixon