After a serious horseback-riding accident in 2006, Mann began a series of penetrating self-portraits that allude to the experiences of pain, aging, and disintegration. She also trained her camera on her husband, who suffers from late-onset muscular dystrophy, a condition that has caused the muscles in his limbs and back to atrophy. In the intimate photographs they produced, Mann probed the devastating impact of disease on his physique. Together these works convey the artist’s belief that loss “is designed to be the catalyst for the more intense appreciation of the here and now.”