Missing mom

Whom else might they look at with such a trust as if the camera between them and photographer was not existing? Who took these pictures? This photo series celebrates the person behind the camera – in this case the mother, who takes the role of the family photographer and usually is not present in the pictures herself. Series functions as an invitation to switch seemingly natural emphasis from what people looked like to valuing how people looked at something, using a camera to make the pictures. The photographs are unique in the way that they represent what photographer wanted to see and to save for others to see. As anthropologist R.Chalfen writes, “there is something very personal about knowing a certain, specific person saw this scene through a camera lens”. Thus, despite missing in the pictures, the mother is still visible through the camera lenses. These photos are also tribute to my own mother who has died young before her grandkids were born and is always missed, but she is still present in my own dreams, remembrances and, consciously or unconsciously, in my own motherhood.