Photography Final Project- Motherhood

"Motherhood" is a series of ten photographs that document the bond of a single mother. How she copes in Canada for her children after her divorce. As a single mother with two children back home, she immigrated to Canada four years ago to study and earn a living for her children's future. All of the photos were taken both inside and outside. In this series, I attempted to capture her as she struggles alone, managing everything at work, at home, and solely for her children. I used my iPhone and camera ios7 to take these pictures from various angles, and I also used some artificial flash light. My goal for this series was to demonstrate how challenging it can be for a single mother to live in Canada without her children and family.How she left a domestic violence relationship and came to Canada to study and now works as a Daycare educator. She tries to find happiness in everything, and she always treats and sees other children as her own, whether in daycare or out in public. Even though she tries to manage the household and work, she keeps missing her kids and when she feel low  then she always goes to the washroom with the picture she thinks that the safest place and no one can see her getting low by missing her kids but she does her best to maintain her social life and stay strong for kids and for her health, whether it is gym or social gathering. I used some color photographs and some black and white images to depict more of the real world.

Strength

No matter what she tries her best to stay strong and maintain herself for her kids and to make her busy

Finding Herself

In this picture, she is asking herself, "Who am I?" because she is a single mother who recently divorced her husband. She is wondering why he was abusive to her and why he didn't love her children. She is talking to herself and attempting to discover her inner self.

Household

Regardless of how tired she is, she never misses any household work on any given day, and she does her best to keep everything in balance. Even when she is ill and unable to work, she never gives up.

Worship

No matter how far she is really from culture and everything, she prays every day to somehow get blessings and strength from God to be strong always prays for kids and hopes to see them quickly.

Imagination

When she sees other kids, she always gives them as much love and care as she can because she sees other kids as her own and misses them, but she gives them all the love and motherhood she can.