The photographer explodes the traditional links between motherhood and the home with daring, often dissociative images

The photographer explodes the traditional links between motherhood and the home with daring, often dissociative images
Travelling to off-grid locations with her mother and daughter, Cromwell returns to the place where she grew up, creating a body of work that reflects both a political and personal reunion
Among illustrating the emotional and chaotic reality of becoming a mother, Galdi’s new book – Sorry I Gave Birth I Disappeared But Now I’m Back – is ultimately a story of unconditional love
Blood, tears, boredom, rage, regret… “There is,” says photographer Diana Karklin, “a B-side to the story of motherhood that is rarely talked about.”
Following the birth of her first child, Woodward experienced postpartum depression, feeling an overwhelming sense of isolation that soon made a lasting impact on her work
“Nothing about the experience of motherhood is linear. It is complex, raw and messy,” says Freeland, one of the winners of Female in Focus 2021
Using tights crops of her facial expressions during labour, a portrait of the intense experience is created
Through a layered and complex narrative, Ang sheds light on the challenges of matrescence
The Japanese photographer’s latest work revisits formative themes, gently reminding us to appreciate the familiar