Sins can be forgiven. Unless they are photographed.
Meet Sister Antonia, a nun with a past. Her stories are made up for your enjoyment, but the evidence is real.

Photographed at the infamous Salton Sea, CA in 2016, and released exactly 10 years later by creative director and model Gabrielle Benot. Sister Antonia is her alter ego... fact or fiction revealed.

Sister Antonia

Seventy-something. Unrepentant. Heaven can wait. She has plans.

Sister Antonia lighting a cigar in her car
Sister Antonia blowing a bubblegum bubble in her car

Story 1: Lost Sister

The desert sun bled sepia over Route 66. Sister Antonia, if she still was, stood stranded, not running, just… called. She’d traded convent whispers for Harley engines, rosary beads clinking against a contraband lighter. Prayer and rebellion, side by side. An engine rumbled in the distance. Salvation? Temptation? Maybe both. Smirking, she embraced the blur. This was her pilgrimage, nowhere bound, searching for herself along the way.

Sister Antonia hitchhiking with a suitcase on a desert road, black and white photograph, 1 May 2016

Her Memories

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About FemTête

FemTête is a gallery of limited edition conceptual black and white photography. Each memory is a signed and numbered gallery quality aluminum print, limited to 50 of each across three sizes. When an edition is gone, it's gone. She doesn't do second chances. Neither do we.
Evidence. Signed and numbered.

Evidence. Signed and numbered.

Read her stories
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