Amy Woodward’s tender photographic eye focuses on portraying the experience of early parenthood. A pivotal moment for everybody living through it and arguably the most fundamental aspect of the human experience at large. We simply wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for a woman who embarked on this transformative journey. The term matrescence describes this process in which two new people, a child and a mother, are born.
And there are even more actors undergoing this rite of passage. A new father, uncles, aunts and cousins, for all of them the birth event initiates major changes. I myself became an uncle a few weeks ago, and the encounter with this new person who will be part of my life was profound.
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Life itself means to separate and to be reunited, to change form and condition, to die and to be reborn.
Arnold van Gennep, Rites de Passage
