Sally Mann is an American photographer now aged 64  who is well known for her black and white photographs of her young children and of landscapes which suggest decay and death. After she had graduated she worked as a photographer at Washington and Lee university. Her first publication was in 1984 and it was called Second Sight. She found her ‘trade mark’ with her second publication At Twelve: Portraits of Young Woman, 1988.  This publication stimulated a minor controversy, the publication included photographs of “captured the confusing emotions and developing identities of adolescent girls [and the] expressive printing style lent a dramatic and brooding mood to all of her images.”. Sally is also well know for her publication called immediate family which includes black and white photographs of her three children taken at her family’s remote summer cabin. I particullary like this publication because it’s appealing to the eye, the images look natural and I like that Sally took a risk in exposing her children for the rest of the world to see and that her children also got a say in which photographs would be published.