Me As A Mother and Myself.

• Photographer
  Hiroko Murayama
• Technical Info
  Taken With A Film Camera.
• Photo Date
  2020-2021

This work was taken to keep myself in balance with myself as a mother. As twins, they stayed in my body for 38 weeks. The more I am close with them, the less I feel the line between myself and them. As a mother, it feels good, but at the same time I am very anxious about missing myself. Why do I feel like I'm gone when I become a mother? In my daily life, I take pictures only when my heart moves. They are in my daily life and things around me, tableware, flowers blooming in the field, and children. Now I feel that there is a moment when myself and myself as a mother are together in me.

I have been working as a freelance photographer since around 2013. I take pictures for advertisements and magazines. There is a work called "Bodhi Tree Garden," which is a photograph of my life with my grandparents. I became a mother of twins in 2017 and continue to take photos of what I feel in my life with my children.