Friends and Enemies: Buck and Jonathan, from the series "Friends and Enemies"

Before producing her series “Friends and Enemies”, Julie Moos spent a year getting to know the 2000 graduating class of a private high school in Birmingham, Alabama. Each of the simply composed large–format photographs in the series shows two students who are either best friends or worst enemies—but Moos did not indicate which. The students did not know with whom they would be posed until just a few moments before the photograph was taken, and this uncertainty remains, encouraging viewers to look closely for clues and reflect on the relationships that defined their own high school years.