Helen M. Stummer
USA

Nominee

"Imitating Mommy"

Imitating Mommy was taken in Nancy's apartment on East Sixth Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1978, around the time when the NY Times called the area one of the meanest in America. I was focusing on Nancy when her daughter jumped into the frame. I thought she wrecked the composition but instead she totally made it work.