Jamie Diamond
EYE MAMA PROJECT
- THE MAMA GAZE -
Bri McDaniel
Eye Mama project is a global photography platform showcasing the mama gaze.
based on instagram, its a community, and now a photo book, that invites photographer Mamas worldwide to showcase their experience of mama-hood home and family in current times, the dark and light of care. their personal truths.
its a first portfolio of this kind and this scope in history, a global self portrait of motherhood.
the portfolio on @eyemamaproject , aims to highlight photographic work and create a shared collective vision of the mama narrative. To document history through the emotional true powerful narratives of Mamahood and share the Mama Gaze, looking introspectively into families and homes. The real world of Mamas as told by them.
“MAMA” is a term of endearment, a nickname a basic first word of attachment. and is anyone who considers themselves a mama / carer of children. the journey includes unseen narratives such as ivf/miscarriage/abortion and more.
this portfolio is the story of care. by mama artists but for all.
We are not all mamas but we are all children!
The creator of Eye Mama Project is Karni Arieli, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker/photographer and mother of two. Karni found photographing her children an empowering process during the pandemic and lockdown of 2020 . she started Eye mama project within that time, After seeing many powerful stories of motherhood appear in social feeds online, images that collected into one striking body of work, the mama gaze.
Eye mama project currently features 4k images of mamahood, has more than 21k followers on instagram, with 60k submissions to hashtag eyemamaproject, from 60 countries and counting.
EYE MAMA BOOK! was published by teNeues and sold worldwide from july 2023. It features 228 images from the project , showing the dark and light of care and giving visibility to the invisible while empowering mama hood.
we are also planning an online archive of real poetic true motherhood images.
Eye mama is part of photo vogue festival nov 2023. and has been shown in an outdoor exhibition at the royal photographic society uk.
Alessia Glaviano, head of global photovogue, acts as advisor of this global vision.
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TO READ MORE ABOUT EYE MAMA PROJECT SEE ARTICLES and selected pr BELOW:
Wall Street Journal article - Eye mama book
Guardian article - Eye mama book
PHmuseum article - Eye mama book
Aesthetica mag article - Eye mama book
Creative review article - Eye mama book
Polly Alderton