I think I became obsessed with photographing mothers long before I understood why.

I photograph family life from the mother’s point of view.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to figure out who I am.

Growing up adopted, I had the most incredible parents and always knew I was deeply loved. Still, somewhere along the way I learned to blend in, wearing whatever version of myself felt safest.

Then I became a mother.

In some ways I had never felt more myself. In others, I felt like I was standing on an iceberg watching the land disappear.

Years of unanswered questions came back, along with an intense gratitude for my own mum, still the most amazing person I know, and for my birth mother, who went through what she did to bring me into the world.

For the first time, I was not looking at either of them only as a daughter. I was looking through the eyes of a mother.

That is why the mother sits at the centre of every story I photograph.

When I photograph your family, I am not waiting for everyone to behave or smile at the same time. I want to understand the life you have made. What happens at your house. Who takes over the kitchen. Who climbs into your bed. What makes everybody laugh when nobody else would understand why.

I want the version of your family that already exists when nobody is performing.

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