What is it about?
The author recounts that giving birth to her first child was a life-changing experience and that she commemorated through photography. The author’s art process involves analyzing her own experiences and therefore she also approached her pregnancy through an artistic lens. In this article, the author describes the art-based process used to increase self-knowledge and self-exploration of the changes occurring in life during and after pregnancy. This self-analysis contributed to the development and collection of ideas that formed the author’s identity as a new mother.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
Motherhood incorporates both joyous and difficult experiences and photography allowed the author to place those experiences side by side, integrating them into a coherent story.
Perspectives
The project can potentially benefit other new mothers experiencing the transition into motherhood – a transition often shrouded in mystery and unhelpfully laden with unrealistic expectations, as the author discovered and are demonstrated in photographs.
adi greenboim
Lesley University
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: An untold truth about pregnancy and motherhood: A self-analysis through photography, Journal of Applied Arts and Health, July 2021, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/jaah_00070_1.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
