Elena Marsh prints at a deliberate scale: faces slightly larger than life, the paper borders kept raw. Her portraits hold a kind of patience that has become rare in the medium — the subject is allowed to arrive at the camera rather than being summoned by it.

In this portfolio, selected from three years of work, the sitters look past the lens toward a window she keeps just out of frame. The light does the introducing; the photographer simply waits for the handshake.