The Nurture & Care Project: The Importance of Accepting Breastfeeding in Public Spaces

If you don’t have children/didn’t breastfeed, what drew you to create this project and celebrate breastfeeding?

It’s interesting to see the reaction of people when they see my artworks, especially this project, and find out I don’t have children. Their surprise is authentic. They generally say that it’s a great joy to see a woman without kids working for so many others who do have them.

During the course of my work with maternity photography, and specifically in breastfeeding sessions and bonding between women and their babies, there has always been a question that has circulated to me in the background: Why are women shunned for nurturing outside their homes? Why is the image of a woman topless on a beach not scandalous, but a semi-uncovered breast that nurtures in a restaurant is?

I believe that breastfeeding is a right that every woman should have without any discussion. It’s not necessary to have kids to feel empathy for the struggles other women face daily in their breastfeeding journey. The right to breastfeed is essential in terms of underlining our difference of gender and our power in that difference.

Do you have any other projects coming up? What next for you? What are your dreams?

The next steps for this project are to photograph in Asia, Africa, Australia and Central America. Funding for this process will be mandatory, as this has always been a non-profit project (and for that reason it has taken me longer to move from one country to another).

The next for me is the development of a photo documentary about displaced women in the Middle East, and child marriage in Africa.

Painful subjects that this world tends to hide.

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