In “Passports,” Keisha Scarville presents an intimate and deeply textured body of work centered on her father’s earliest passport photograph. Over the course of thirteen years, Scarville reinterpreted this single image more than three hundred times, using collage, paint, gold leaf, and found materials to transform a bureaucratic document into a layered act of photomontage. The book interweaves these experimental works with archival images of Guyana and New York City from the 1960s to the 80s, self-portraits, and transcripts of conversations between father and daughter. Published by MACK, it is a profound exploration of Black identity, migration, and the disruption of the “neutral” gaze of state documentation.