While pursuing an artistic career in Paris, Carolle Bénitah rediscovered family albums from her Moroccan childhood and began to reinterpret the images they contained. She selected, scanned, and made new prints of the original photographs, then embroidered patterns into them with bright red thread. The source photograph for Le déguisement was taken on the Jewish holiday Purim, when costumes are often worn. Bénitah echoed this tradition by stitching veils over each child’s face and allowing loose ends to pool at the bottom of the frame.