A stack of sepia tone cabinet card photographs is shown and casually mixed. After a spectator makes a free selection, it is revealed to match a photograph that has been on display throughout the evening. This can be a precognition or prediction effect, an exercise in influence and suggestion, or even a supernatural coincidence. And here's the best part, The Photo Morgana is loosely based on a well known deck of gimmicked cards that you probably have in your drawer.
The force of the selected photo is self working and sure fire. Using overlapping methods, it opens up brand new approaches to theatrical storytelling. Is the photograph a relative, a serial killer, a victim, or a bygone celebrity...?