MY CHILDREN - Pictures taken by a mother I have been photographing my children, Eden and Emmanuelle since I got pregnant in 2003. I photograph as a mother, from a mother's point of view, showing the different aspects of motherhood as I see it, the beautiful and the ugly, the magic and the frustration, the extremes that live side by side when you are a mother. I try to photograph them all. Crying, sadness, anxiety, mourning the body I will never have again, the woman I will never be again. The strong physical connection to the children, erotic at times, something I found out many mothers experience but not talk about much. The need to photograph becomes even stronger since the passing time is so painfully apparent in children's life, every week is different, and the stages they go through fly by. Moments that will never come back happened every day in front of my eyes, escaping my camera, I had to preserve them somehow, at least some of them, a need parents share, we need to take pictures of our children, whether we are professional photographers or not. The photographer in me sometimes fights the mother, the two can be conflicted, but at the end, it is the mother who usually wins.
