or else features the artist Tanya Ury to the left of the picture, sitting in three-quarter view. Digitally incorporated into the photograph and facing her to the right, is the German-Jewish author Else Sara Ury (1877-1943). Tanya dresses and poses similarly to Else and mimics her facial expression. Else and Tanya share the same surname. Tanya Ury's grandmother Hedwig Ury (neé Ullmann), like Else Ury, also perished in Auschwitz, but a year later in 1944.

or else is the consequence of lesser is me more or less 2003, Tanya Ury's photographic portrait of herself and the early 20th Century German painter Lesser Ury.

Further double portraits in this series are:
lesser is me more or less 2003
Du bist Einstein 2007
doobeedoo 2007

Tanya Ury