Undo Motherhood

Description

In this book, Diana Karklin combines two narrative languages: her photography and her interviews with women. It is divided into seven chapters: anger, fear, isolation, exhaustion, guilt, resignation and acceptance. The last chapter stresses the importance of accepting regret in order to be able to deal with it in a constructive way without harming the children.

Diana chose to present the seven stories from seven different countries as separate booklets – each with a ‘closed’ cover – in a slipcase, to highlight the loneliness of these mothers trapped in their homes and condemned to silence. As much as Diana would want to see them as a collective voice, the reality is different.

Design: Marina Meyer, Berlin/underbau, Madrid
ISBN 9789053309506
Format: 17 x 22 cm. portrait
7 separate booklets in a slipcase (4 of 52 pp, 1 of 48 pp., 1 of 44 pp. and 1 of 40 pp.; total 340 pp.)
Each booklet is a paperback with a 6 pp. cover
Content of the booklets in total 340 pp with 135 photos in full colour

Features & Reviews
The Guardian 
The Saturday Guardian newspaper (July 16-17, 2022) + Cover
The Guardian Weekly, July 22nd 2022
Onet Kobieta (in Polish)
Creative Boom
Bird in Flight (in Russian)
Die Zeit (in German)
Hessischer Rundfunk (in German)
Book Riot 
Tages-Anzeiger (in German)
Brigitte.de (in German)
Globalist (in Italian)
El País (in Spanish)
The Fine Print 
Heroine (in Czech)
Eikon #119 (in German)
Vanity Fair Italy (in Italian)
The British Journal of Photography
The Luupe —Fifty-Seven Photography Books That Made Us See Differently in 2022

Shortlists & Awards
The 8th SIPF 2022 Open Call Showcase — Photobooks

Exhibitions
My Obvious Presence. Lived Motherhood in contemporary visual culture, Deák Erica Galéria, Budapest, June 3-July 29, 2022
The Photobook Exhibition, the Athens Photo Festival 2022, June 12-July 24, 2022
doing family, Vögele Kultur, Pfäffikon, Switzerland, November 15, 2022-March 19, 2023