The sacred chaos of being a mother
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- 26 May 2022
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Family portraits often bring to mind a smiling family in their Sunday best, looking at the camera in a portrayal of a picture-perfect life. But for Iowa-based artist Katie Golobic, these aren’t the images she lives for—though she does admit to having a few of them on her walls. One look at her own body of work reveals, rather, a photographer in the pursuit of extraordinary, decisive moments between the chaos and mundanity of motherhood.
“My work is my children,” she shares. “This is why I photograph. I photograph because of them. If they weren’t here I probably wouldn’t be photographing as much or with the intent that I do.”
A documentary love letter
Golobic’s artist statement boldly proclaims that her work is a love letter to her children. Her Leica M10 Monochom is always within an arm’s reach, and with it, in stark B&W, she faithfully documents this season of her family’s life.
“The timelessness of it, and stripping away…You see the moment for what it is, and you’re not distracted by anything else,” she explains. “It helps me convey what I want to share with the world. That timelessness is important for me.”
Her current running series, “Saturday Mornings on Rosedale,” is an ode to childhood and all the play, excitement, adventure, chaos, and wonder that comes along with it. She plans on working on it as long as her children allow it.
“It’s really about me kind of watching the scenes within our house unfold, and elevating some of the everyday moments that happen,” Golobic elaborates. “Saturday morning…that’s often the time when at least [we’re] all together. I just wanted to evoke the feeling of being at your home with your children, and a lot of people think of Saturday morning cartoons, or Saturday morning pancakes. It’s just kind of that feeling.”
Though she treasures the story behind each photograph, there is one that stands out among the rest: A snowy day, bitterly cold, and a walk down the driveway to retrieve the garbage cans, if only to get outside for a moment. The effort resulted in a joyfully chaotic scene: Her son, then three, attempting to haul the can up the driveway, his siblings in tow. Read More...
