Mothers and Daughters

Overview

Mothers, daughters and all people in general: gather around and hear about this great exhibition hosted by The Auckland Festival of Photography.

New Zealand’s only photographic festival runs this year from 28 May – 20 June bringing together a wide selection of artists, academics, curators, students, amateurs and professionals.

Displayed at Silo 6 in Wynyard Quarter, Julia Fullerton-Batten’s exhibition features a series of images designed to challenge the viewer to contemplate the relationship between mothers and daughters and the love, struggle and rivalry shared in their lives.

Julia describes her latest project as depicting “the complex and sometimes challenging relationship between a mother and her daughter. I chose to work with real mother and daughter pairs in their own environment, rather than with models or actors. We created their own small world together, at the same time, through the staging of the scene, reviving for me memories of my own family's relationships. As the project grew in shape, form and content, and I related to twenty different mother and daughter pairs, with their very varied, sometimes ultra-sensitive relationships, I realised how much the fragility and vulnerability of females is exposed fully in the mother-daughter relationship.”

Pretty deep, right? The exhibition is open from 10:30am – 4:30pm every day, so bring your mother (or anyone, really) to explore this intriguing study of family bonds.