Karolina Jonderko

Photographer
  
Reborn
Location: Warsaw
Nationality: polish
Biography: Born in 1985 in Rydułtowy. Coal miner's daughter. Member of Napo Images Agency. The first Silesian woman to receive the World Press Photo Award in 2021.  Her long-term projects were nationally and internationally awarded by Magnum &... MORE
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Reborn
Copyright Karolina Jonderko 2024
Updated Oct 2022
Location Poland
Babies awaken strong emotions in adults. We look after them with care and gentleness, we love them. Surprisingly, this is the case even if they are not real.

I wanted to find out why.

It looks like a real baby, it even smells like one, but it’s made of vinyl. When you take on such a doll, you are given a birth certificate with the weight and height, just like a real baby. Each and every one of them is unique, carefully crafted by reborn artists, that’s why they are collected as pieces of art. Yet those dolls happen to be a powerful therapy tool. It’s proven that cuddling a baby causes a release of hormones, which produce a sense of well-being. They bring comfort.Every woman has a unique motive for having such a baby. The maternal instinct is so strong that those who can’t have, or have lost a baby, give their love to an unreal one. They look after them, change them, take them for a walk and buy clothes for them. The “babies” provide companionship, they bring calming routine, they are a little bundle of joy to love and help their “mothers” dealing with loss, depression, trauma or anxiety.
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