Documenting the realities of juggling motherhood and a creative career

Photo caption: Textile designer Yemi Awosile with her son Ezra shot at her East London studio. Article by Emily Gosling. Creative Boom – April 19, 2023.

Dunja Opalko’s new series of portraits looks to both celebrate mothers in the creative industries and gently highlight the difficulties of juggling a career you’re passionate about with the realities of parenthood.

London-based photographer Opalko has her daughter in peak pandemic times, in June 2020. It occurred to her very quickly that the myth of being able to ‘have it all’ as a woman was just that – a myth. “I suddenly felt that it’s quite hard to balance work and motherhood,” she says. […]

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