# Documenting the realities of juggling motherhood and a creative career

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/documenting-the-realities-of-juggling-motherhood-and-a-creative-career-2/
- Published: 2023-04-30T10:00:11-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at www.creativeboom.com