MOTHERHOOD, INTERRUPTED

Before becoming a photographer, I spent fifteen years building a career in business and technology. My identity was shaped by ambition, achievement and a clear sense of self. Then I became a mother.

Like many women, I found myself caught between the person I had spent decades becoming and the demands of raising young children. I loved motherhood but struggled with the feeling that parts of myself had slipped out of focus.

This project grew from that experience.

Through a series of stylised portraits, I photograph mothers as confident, glamorous women while the chaos of family life unfolds around them. Children disrupt carefully composed scenes, demand attention and create beautiful disorder. The mothers remain firmly at the centre of the frame.

The work explores the tension between identity and caregiving, ambition and responsibility, who we were before children and who we become after them.

As I photograph other mothers, I am also exploring my own questions about selfhood and motherhood. The project asks whether becoming a mother means setting aside part of yourself or finding a way to hold on to every version of who you are.