To date, her subjects have tended to be adolescents and her colour portraits, which often resemble film stills, evoke the strange sense of suspended time between youth and adulthood. Sarfati's obsession with the inner lives of the young and dislocated is not, of itself, anything new: both Rene Dijkstra and Larry Clark have explored similar terrain. But Sarfati's photographs, though deceptively simple on first viewing, have a mysterious quality that is to do, in part, with her deft merging of portraiture, snapshot and arranged tableau.