Lexi & Jade

Lexi, Lindenhurst, New York, 2012, from American Girls

Ilona Szwarc has documented dolls and their owners in streets and homes across the United States.  The dolls are customisable with variable skin tones, hair colours and styles to match their owners. Photograph: Ilona Szwarc/Redux.

Jade, Farmingville, New York, 2011, from American Girls

The project raises questions about the defining and categorising of identity, along with who gets to be represented and how. Photograph: Ilona Szwarc/Redux.