Erin Marra over at Lovesomeblog.com posted a really nice piece about Momma Love and expressed a question I’ve heard many times now. WHEN IS THIS BOOK COMING OUT?? Let me assure you I’ll shout it from the highest hills when it’s out. It’s definitely been a long, really great journey, during which the book has become much stronger and better, so I’m glad for the time it’s had to simmer.

Check out Lovesome here.

I recently got to participate in this very cool project by The Family Values at Work Consortium. They fight for better policy on paid sick days and affordable family leave. Some of the other stories are really powerful! Check out Lourdes!

(Please forgive the fact that I call my 18 month old son my “18 year old son”. It’s the brain of a person with an 18 month old son talking…)

 

For over 30 years, Mothering Magazine has been discussing what it’s really like to live life as a mother. What better place to have work from “Momma Love; How the Mother Half Lives” featured… In the January/ February issue (which you can find online here), there is a beautifully done Momma Love editorial featuring portraits and snippets of text from some of the Momma Love mommas.

Please pass the article around to anyone you think might enjoy it, and have a look through the whole magazine if you have the chance. There’s a lot of good stuff in there.

You can also download a PDF of the article below. And check out the Mothering Magazine blog.
caught in the act of mothering

I’m excited to share the news that an editorial spread about my project Momma Love ; How the Mother Half Lives is featured in the Jan/Feb issue of Mothering Magazine! Mothering is a very cool magazine that discusses all aspects of motherhood in a raw, unfliching way. It’s available for sale at Borders, Barnes & Noble, Whole Foods, Babies R Us in the U.S. and Chapters in Canada, as well as in many independent book, natural food, and baby stores across North America.

Please spread the word!

Momma Love’s Kitty Stillufsen (who I photographed for Marie Claire a couple of months ago) was on The Nate Show, along with her parenting partners and couple, Darren Greenblatt and Sam Hunt. They were talking about their unique parenting situation.

See clips from the show here and here and look for some of the photos we did together in the show’s montage introduction.

The Museum of Motherhood makes it it’s mission to spread the word about how mothers are living and have lived their lives throughout history. In keeping with that goal, they recently honored me with a piece about Momma Love.

A photo of Momma Love’s Kitty Stillufsen (see her story in the Marie Claire article on this blog) was one of 50 winning images, selected out of over 2,500 entries, by the prestigious Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. The other work selected is great, which always makes you feel good about being a part of the group. All winning images will be published in an upcoming book about family.

Santa Fe Workshops FAMILY contest

Marie Claire Greece just ran a beautiful 5 page spread on the Momma Love project.

I recently met an amazing woman named Jessica Shyba. It just so happens, she writes a very successful blog that chronicles her relocation from the suburbs to NYC with her husband and two beautiful kids. Suburban to urban mom is a move I’ve been hearing more and more about lately.

Jessica is one of the moms I’ll be talking to and photographing for my Momma Love book project. She honored me with a very cool mention about the Momma work, and about my work photographing mothers in prison, on her blog this month! You can read her piece about it here.

The August issue of Marie Claire (on stands now) features photos I took of Momma Love momma Kitty Stillufsen in an article about how she “proposed” parenthood to her two gay best friends! The three of them conceived and are raising a daughter named Olive together. It’s an incredible story. In addition to being excited to shoot Kitty’s story, I’ve been wanting to do something with my art for a long time now that will support issues surrounding gay rights. I’m an ardent supporter of gay marriage, but it seems hard sometimes to figure out how to do anything actually productive with your art to support causes you believe in. This was a unique opportunity to  do just that. To support the rights of people who love each other to have their commitments respected. To honor this beautiful family with the respect they deserve.

This story has since run, with these and additional photos, in Marie Claire Australia and Greece, and in Italian Grazia Magazine.