This article addresses the role of photography in a short autobiographical narrative from Nicole Brossard. While the text’s visual archives appear to confine the author to reality, from which she tries to escape throughout her whole work, Brossard uses those pictures to reinforce the rhetoric of the self central to her feminist project. However, the writer cannot bring completely into subjection what photography reproduces: more than ever, it opens her writing to different forms of otherness, producing a constant dialogue between reality and imagination.