Mums In View [ Part 2 ]

Here is a preview of another one of the five beautiful mums in the 'Mums In View' Project. I loved this shoot and there were some great images that came out of this one.

An excerpt from the book..........

We are all used to seeing our mothers with messy hair, no makeup, and at times dressed like she’s never seen a mirror. It’s life. We don’t all wake up looking like we stepped off a catwalk. If a child looked at a photo that showed them with their mum, engaged in something they would look back at in years to come as a sentimental memory, they would only see their mum. They wouldn’t care whether her hair, makeup, and clothes were on point that day or not. The way they read that photo will be completely different to the way mum would read it, and anyone else for that matter. Each person brings something different to the way they read a photo, so where mothers may see flaws, children see their mum - they see through loving eyes their own experience of her as they have always known her. Equally, people around her see her through their own subjective experience. If there’s a photo that we don’t like of ourselves and we want to get rid of it, but another says they love it, before you destroy it, realise that they love it because they actually do. There is no one way to read a photo, it’s a subjective experience.'

Mums In View - by Justine Justine Brentnall

Mums in View [ Part 1 ]

Here is a sample of a few images of one of the beautiful mums in the 'Mums In View' Project. There are five mums featured in the project, each with their own unique story, yet each captured with the same intention - putting mum in front of the camera. When all we have left is images of someone, those images are everything.

Excerpt from 'Mums In View' book -

'People are taking photos at a skyrocketing pace that we have never seen before. I know that I am one of them. I reflect however, that for all my efforts to document my family, there is very little evidence of me in those pictures.....

...... I reflect that other than the standard celebrative milestone photos, my participation in a group photo with friends, or my own selfies, I am always the one behind the camera, never in front of it. There is not much, if anything, that captures me in the day-to-day activities of family life, or that places me in the frame of the moments that I felt were important to capture, or in moments doing the things I love to do. There’s nothing that leaves behind a glimpse of how I interacted with my children, my husband, and the family.......

........I realise that for the most part, I am present in every aspect of my children’s lives, yet the story that our family photos will tell is that I was absent or didn’t want to be in the photo with them. Both of which are untrue.' - Mums In View by Justine Brentnall

‘Mums in View’ is now available to purchase.