Abigail Fisher

The babysitter has assumed various roles within popular culture – scheming seductress, slacker, killer, victim. What does it mean to insert oneself into someone else’s domestic sphere, at the nexus of race, power, gender and care?

The country house is a winter postcard, a landscape frozen in stasis half a world away. But for Alison and her children, the fresh-fallen snow can only cover the stench of death and impending loss for so long.