Recently I visited The Photographer's Gallery to view the 'Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity' exhibition. I felt that the theme of this exhibition is relevant to my project and would benefit and inform my idea. The work in the exhibition is highly subjective, with a sense of seriousness and intense reflection. Much of the work also reflects contemporaneous impulses in photography to photograph everything, however seemingly inappropriate. Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity, questions both the identity of the mother figure, but also the identity of photography at a time when the expectations and demands of both are in flux, and both subject and medium grapple for new meaning.
The exhibition showcased the work of eight different photographers, each of their work presented in a different format, ranging from photographs hung in white frames on the wall, propped on a shelf on the wall, presented within sketchbooks and notepads and laid on a table in glass boxes. The images that I have chosen above were my particular favourite from the exhibition, as I feel that all contain a sense of the 'unknown' and portray the idea of vulnerability. I particularly liked the work of Fred Huning and his image of the girl floating surrounded by nothing but water; I feel it conveys a sense of loss and vulnerableness.
Fred Huning
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