Assembly is a sweeping overview of Jackie Nickerson’s photography over the last three decades, tracing her fascination with identity and the physical and psychic spaces of working environments. It consists of three thematic volumes—Earth, Emerge, Circle. At the core of Earth are Nickerson’s acclaimed “Farm” portraits, showing agricultural laborers in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa wearing self-made clothes. Emerge, framed by series on circus performers and the streetscapes of Shanghai, centers on “Faith,” her depiction of Irish Catholic monastic life. The final volume, Circle, includes “Ten Miles Round,” an exploration of farming and fishing communities in County Louth, Ireland; her documentation of healthcare workers during the 2014 Ebola epidemic in Liberia; and “Salvage,” studio portraits in which she obstructs her sitters’ faces with salvaged objects to question how materiality influences one’s sense of self.