I make honest pictures of daily life. Everywhere there’s everyday and everywhere it’s different. This work is peek into mine.

I’m drawn to the dusty corners of daily life and look for ways to photograph the intangible that hide there. In my project, Learning To Speak Bear, I invite you into the metamorphosis of motherhood. Making photographs has helped me learn to read the language of my children’s bodies – their subtle yet demanding cues of need. This work is about childhood told from the mother’s point of view. It takes the viewer into the world of parenting and sheds light on the relentlessness of caregiving. Having children is a biological process, becoming a mother is not. Becoming a mother means confronting buried trauma while straddling the first, second and third shifts, juggling physical and emotional needs with financial obligations. It means often lamenting careers due to high child care costs and poor support.

These photographs are an invitation to explore the physical work of the second shift so you can understand the mental loads of the third shift.