Phoebe French

Mother, I’m Home considers the emotional weight and sometimes invisibility of motherhood in the home. Using staged, flash-lit, uncanny portraits of her mother, the project captures French’s mother’s constant but often overlooked presence. The project is an attempt for French to see her mother not as a role or background figure but as a complex subject that has been shaped by duty, stereotypes, and repetition. She asks the viewer to reconsider what we see, and fail to see, in the women who raise us.