"Fae Richards is a fictional character conceived by Cheryl Dunye. Zoe Leonard photographed and constructed this archive to tell Richards' story ... The photographs were then used as source material for a 'documentary' of Fae Richards' life in Dunye's film 'The Watermelon Woman' (1996)."
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