Buckhannon, West Virginia

Claiming her place in the sun like a queen of the hill, a girl stands atop a dirt pile, surrounded by toy trucks. A quizzical young boy looks at her with interest, or perhaps frustration, as she momentarily disrupts the setting.

While driving around small towns in the early 1980s at a time when children more regularly played outside, photographer Sage Sohier sought out such moments. Sohier is fascinated by the ability of a photograph to freeze time, removing subjects from a context to create something new that she describes as "a fiction created with real people."