Known for her unconventional approach to portrait photography, most notably her classic trilogy THE SLEEPERS, THE TRAVELERS, and THE NARCISSISTS, American photographer Elizabeth Heyert again assumes her role as observer and voyeur in her latest book, THE OUTSIDER photographed during four trips to China. Fascinated by the rituals of Chinese amateur photographers, who seem to shoot incessantly, with an intimacy with their environment that borders on stagecraft, Heyert embarked on a project to photograph the Chinese taking photographs of each other.