I was never told that I could become a mother on my own, without a partner involved in the process of motherhood. Single motherhood is inspiring and empowering to me. I admire women who decide to take that path, because I believe that it is challenging as well as rewarding. Being the only parent and constantly having to respond to a child’s needs and requests must feel at times like a tough and never-ending emotional engagement. On the other hand, I imagine that the single mothering process must be a fulfilling and satisfying experience for a woman, because it imparts and recognises their independence by refusing the idea that a woman needs a partner in order to fulfil the needs of a child and to perform the role of parent.

Hibbe is Jitske’s son. Jitske is a woman who at some point in her life felt the desire to become a mother without a partner. She didn’t want to wait until she found the right person to start a family, so that she looked for different options.
This photograph is part of a larger work and research, which revolves around motherhood, family and the relationship between care and photography.
Care is not a complete action, but is ongoing, it can characterize a single activity or it can describe a process.
Applied to my work, this mean that care is at the base of the encounters I experience and the relational aspects of my photography and also is fundamental in my photographic practice as a whole.
I am interested in photographs and social constructs in which, rather than being just the subject, care is the very premise of the act of photographing.
The work of Federica Coseschi (Livorno, 1991) revolves around themes such as womanhood, social construction of identity and of gender. Her research and work is moved by her background in sociology.
She is based in Denmark and is Alumni from the MA Photography & Society program at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.