REPRODUCTIVE IDENTITIES
A mini-project I conceived as part of an internship for the Museum of Motherhood (FL, USA), where I took photographs of two young women and interviewed them about their thoughts on motherhood and how they view themselves in relation to it. As well as recording their personal views and experiences, I wanted to capture the feeling of being a young woman today, caught between childhood and maturity while facing the world's ever-escalating violence and technological domination.
I do want to be a mum, to be able to pass on all the things I love. Children allow you to ask questions of the world once again [...] you become a child again yourself.
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Isabella, age 23
It is always a risk whenever you have a kid [...] am I going to die or am I going to ever be the same?
Sometimes I wish I could just go back to being a little girl [...] things were a lot easier then. You don’t have to worry about your doll.
I have an idea of how I want to mother that is probably not mainstream mothering.
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Willow, age 21
In Indigenous culture, motherhood is very community-led [...] it really is special, the child is everyone’s child.
One of the worries that I think about when raising a child is that I want them to be fully equipped to live in this life. I just want to make sure I can do as much as I can to create a safer space for them.