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Silver 2025 People / Self-Portrait

Life Wants to Continue

  • Photographer
    Olha Malik

The self-portraits in this series represent a personal journey through the spiral of destruction, in search of a new self. My third pregnancy revealed a deep sense of guilt surrounding motherhood. Today, it’s unclear whether being a mother or being pregnant is good or bad, a reward or a punishment. The combination of mother and artist remains a unique, often invisible challenge. This series calls for the recognition and support of female creativity and mothers who are also artists.