All of It: Kamdyn and Tomara
Tomara used all of her sick days to supplement her short maternity leave, so she doesn’t get paid when she has to take a day off. This situation isn’t uncommon in the U.S., where 40% of workers don’t...
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Tomara works in administration at a university and takes classes so she can become an academic advisor. Her work is slow while classes aren’t in session during the summer, and sometimes the afternoons...
View ArticleAll of It: Me
And what does my baby do while I photograph working moms? Hangs out and eats at daycare with Alexxis, Iris, Elia and his friends (or, when he’s home sick, naps while I rush to get computer work done...
View ArticleAll of It: The Cost of Daycare
I photographed anthropology professor Carla Bellamy and her daughters Dessa and Margo for the New York Times Sunday Review recently. Alissa Quart wrote about the high cost of child care and the middle...
View ArticleAll of It: Back on the Job
And then working mother Jen was back at work, running a press conference about discriminatory policing, speaking to members of the media, and pumping (and washing breast pump parts in the sink). Jen...
View ArticleAll of It: First Day at Daycare
But before she went back to work, Jen had to get through dropping her baby off for his first day at daycare. The morning was hectic and rushed, but everyone made it out of the house (and Jen remembered...
View ArticleAll of It: Daily Life
Picking the kids up from daycare, training for a run in honor of a friend lost to leukemia, bathing a child – small actions that add up to a life. (More photographs of Jen as a working mother here.)
View ArticleThe Mind’s Eye
I’ve just promised to read a book on the critical theory of photography each month this year. It’s the kind of thing I always want to do but never think I have the time. But Jo Lien, a photographer and...
View ArticleMeet the Journalists: The Nanny’s Child
My collaborator Alissa Quart and I were excited to receive a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to support a piece we did on the global care chain for the Nation and PRI’s the World....
View ArticleFull-Spectrum Reproductive Care for the New York Times
I worked on a piece about full-spectrum reproductive care for the New York Times Sunday Review with my frequent collaborator, writer Alissa Quart. Buffalo Womenservices is unusual because it is a birth...
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