What Cass Bird Sees Before You Remember to Pose

Cass Bird’s photography has always had this quality of catching people in the moment before they remember to perform for the camera. I Look Just Like My Daddy—her project documenting young people, many of them gender non-conforming, alongside the fathers they resemble—turns physical resemblance into something almost quietly political: evidence of inheritance, of love that moves through bodies regardless of whatever rules anyone wrote about how bodies are supposed to look. The portraits are warm and a little defiant. The kind of images you keep returning to without quite knowing why.