Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood

What began as a way to connect with mothers during the pandemic, the Eye Mama Project from BAFTA-nominated filmmaker and photographer Karni Arieli, blossomed into a community of women sharing the realities of motherhood from the mama gaze.

Two years and nearly 50,000 submissions later, the ecstasy and agony of motherhood is now captured in the 200-image photo book Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood (teNeues).

Eye Mama project is a global photography platform that invites photographer Mamas worldwide, to showcase their experience of mama-hood home and family from 2015 onwards.

We are calling for Photographer Mamas globally to share their artistic work with the Eye Mama community; on our instagram platform, aiming to highlight photographic work and create a shared story of their truths. To document history through the emotional narratives of Mamahood and share the Mama Gaze, looking introspectively into their own families and homes. The real world of Mamas told by them. A self portrait.

“MAMA” is a term of endearment, a nickname a basic first word of attachment. and is anyone who considers themselves a mama / carer of children. including ivf/miscarriage/abortion and all narratives

The Eye mama project is Not about Mamahood. It’s about Humanity! We are not all mamas but we are all children!

The creator of Eye Mama Project is Karni Arieli, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker/photographer and mother of two. Karni found photographing her children an empowering process during the pandemic and lockdown of 2020 . she started Eye mama project within that time, After seeing many powerful stories of motherhood appear in social feeds online, images that collected into one striking body of work, the mama gaze.

Eye mama project currently features 3k images of mamahood, has more than 15.5k followers on instagram, with 47k submissions to hashtag eyemamaproject, from 50 countries and counting.

We have now started work on the EYE MAMA BOOK! published by teNeues summer 2023. we are also planning an online archive of real poetic true motherhood images, a book launch worldwide/ exhibition talks and more…. Visability is key. you cant empower the invisible! Lets make care a commodity and empathy a superpower…

MAMA GAZE MATTERS!!!

Alessia Glaviano, head of global photovogue, acts as advisor of this global vision.

We want to thank pic time for supporting the eye mama seed development , as well as mpb for supporting our open call ! Please follow us, share and submit your photos with #eyemamaproject on Instagram. Make sure you sign up below to receive email updates. There is lots of exciting news to come…

Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light

By Virginia Hanusik

Publisher : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

2024 | 184 pages

In South Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water―and the history of controlling it―is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry―past, present, and future. The book sustains our physical, mental, and emotional connections to these landscapes through a collection of photographs by Virginia Hanusik. Framing the architecture and infrastructure of South Louisiana with both distance and intimacy, introspection and expansiveness, this work engages new memories, microhistories, anecdotes, and insights from scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners working in the region. Unfolding alongside and in dialogue with Hanusik’s photographs, these reflections soberly and hopefully populate images of South Louisiana’s built and natural environments, opening up multiple pathways that defy singularity and complicate the disaster-oriented imagery often associated with the region and its people. In staging these meditations on water, life, and land loss, this book invites readers to join both Hanusik and the contributors in reading multiplicity into South Louisiana’s water-ruled landscapes.

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Publisher : Fraglich Publishing

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By Akinbode Akinbiyi

Publisher : Spector Books

2024 | 252 pages

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By Grace Wales Bonner

Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2024 | 184 pages

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