Photographer: Angelika Kollin

Open Call: In Isolation

As the covid pandemic rolled over the world, many of us found ourself going back to basics and spending more times with our families. The portrait “You are my mother”, unknown to me at that moment, was a beginning of a project with same name. It was created in April, while still in complete lockdown in South Africa, while documenting a very vulnerable and beautiful emotional healing moment between a mother and her adult daughter. It lead to my deeper exploration of the same “”story”” in other mother/child connections, examining the impact it had on my own family life and on that of my audience. Later the project expanded into a logical progression and the relationship between father and children with its different dynamics and gifts became the focus of further exploration.

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United States