Another of Diamond’s series, “Forever Mothers,” also features reborn figures, this time in documenting members of the community of (mostly) women who collect and often make the lifelike dolls. Some of the reborners have lost a child, while others were unable to bear children at all; still others found the crafting and collecting of these handmade infants a balm for empty-nest syndrome. Diamond’s reborn photographs will be included in the exhibit “Surrogate: A Love Ideal,” to be held at the Milan Osservatorio location of Fondazione Prada, in February—a two-person show that will also showcase works by Elena Dorfman, who, in her photographic exploration of men and women posing with their life-size sex-doll companions, examines, like Diamond, the strong bonds that people can form with synthetic representations of humans. In an essay that will accompany the show, the curator, Melissa Harris, provides excerpts from conversations that she had with some of Diamond’s reborner subjects. A woman named Marilyn told Harris that “the dolls here really are like part of the family.” Another, named Laurel, said, “Holding the baby literally plays with your mind, it’s so real.” And Kym, a stepmother of five, wanted to have a baby who would be only her own; when she ordered a reborn doll online she “fell in love with it, because it looked and felt like a real baby, the baby I’d never had.”