You Look at Me Like An Emergency: A Collection of Journeys Secrets & Wishes

About this book

Cig Harveys YOU LOOK AT ME LIKE AN EMERGENCY is a visual autobiography exploring the photographers central relationships over the course of more than a decade. Through rich vibrant photographs and startingly revealing writing Cig transforms quotidian experences that reference time and place creating totems that mark key moments in her life. As much a map of one womans emotional life as it is a catalog of psychological archetypes YOU LOOK AT ME LIKE AN EMERGENCY takes the viewer on a literal and metaphorical journey that deals with rejection hope indecision strength loss and love to finally find a place called home. In seventy-four gorgeously colored photographs and seventeen personally written vignettes EMERGENCY conveys the universal quest for personal identity and place in the world.