Having first encountered working with the still image in the darkrooms of her high school, photographer and writer Samantha Cabera Friend has since developed a practice dedicated to telling stories. Mainly working on long-term projects, the Chicago and New York-based creative focusses on “the cultural expectations of women and female youth in my community,” a topic which recently led her to board one of the largest cruise ships in the world to document the phenomenon of the quinceañera cruise.
