Private Story
The Mudshow Diaries
Summary
It's about us. It's about a small circus traveling around the country gathering memories. It could be about you.
The Mudshow Diaries is about making sure my kids stay away from the elephants, trying to find a laundromat in a strange town, documenting a world built around family ties and sweat: a diary kept over years of traveling with a circus in the United States became a journey in photography and motherhood, along with a journey into the circus' hidden world. Along the way it also became a journey in belonging.
The Mudshow Diaries is about making sure my kids stay away from the elephants, trying to find a laundromat in a strange town, documenting a world built around family ties and sweat: a diary kept over years of traveling with a circus in the United States became a journey in photography and motherhood, along with a journey into the circus' hidden world. Along the way it also became a journey in belonging.
- Tell us more about the photo(s). What stands out to you now, looking back? Is there any additional context you’d like to share with our audience? The images stand out in their depiction of this strange worlds that were both motherhood and the circus for me at that time.
- 2. Can you describe what it has been like being a mother? What are the challenges and triumphs, and what would you like readers to know about your experience? Because I became a mother at the same time that I left my job as a photographer and my world in a community of friends and family, it was excruciatingly difficult, and plunged me into a depression that I didn't recognized for what it was until many years later.
- 3. What does motherhood mean to you? It means traveling together with my kids on a path of discovery steeped in love, curiosity and courage in the fog of a vast unknown. I am but a vessel to bring my children to this world and we are learning about this thing called life together.
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