for Women’s Visual Voices
Mothering
in the Contemporary
World
If you could choose just one photograph to speak about your life as a mother today—
which one would you choose?
HOW SHE LIVES｜她 · 如何 is a long-term international participatory visual project in which women use photographs they have already made—and the stories they choose to tell—to record lived experience. It does not begin with a fixed idea of what women’s lives should look like. It begins with individual voices, allowing similarities, differences and contradictions to remain visible alongside one another.
I → MANY “I”s → WE → I, NOW
I
Choose one photograph you made before this invitation.
MANY
“I”s
Photographs and stories come together.
WE
Encounter other lives, experiences and perspectives.
I,
NOW
After time has passed, return to the photograph and meet it again.
Open your
camera roll.
Don’t look for the best photograph. Scroll back slowly. Look for the one that makes you stop. If that photograph feels connected to your life as a mother today, we would like to hear why.