CASTING CALL

Mother, Not Other is a personal exploration seeking to extend and address the narrow visual language connected to maternal physical inheritance.

Specifically, mothers and their children who don’t share immediate or obvious physical attributes.

Mothers who have different coloured skin or features. Mothers who have adopted or are not the genetic parent. Mothers with children who are disabled. Mothers whose reality remains absent from the canon of mothering imagery.

Throughout my life, as child and now as a mother, I have constantly heard that I look different to my mother, to my daughter. That my daughters don’t look the same. That one looks like me and the other doesn’t. These curious and continuous comments, said over a life time are both fracturing and tiresome. I’m her MOTHER, not some OTHER!

They are also evidence of the lack of diversity in the imagery we are exposed to, the ways in which we view and therefore comprehend what a mother and child should look like.

A deeply personal absence, I hope through this work a richer, more reflexive and tacit language and understanding may take root, transfiguring imagery to positively impact the lives of those represented by this project.

This is an exploration rooted in joy and celebration as much as resistance and education.

I am looking for mothers and their children to be photographed and share their story.

Who can apply?

Mothers who society perceives as not looking like their children

Mothers who will be comfortable being photographed with their children

What’s involved?

Photography session in your home or agreed location this Summer/Autumn 2026

You will receive a gallery of all images taken on the day

Signing a model release form

Selected images will be submitted to award competitions with the final goal of the project to be an exhibition and publication of the finished and select works.

If this is a project that resonates with you please get in touch with a few details of yourself and children below.