An online conversation with American photographic artist Corinne Botz about her extraordinary project Milk Factory, documentation of which was recently published by Saint Lucy Books.
Corinne will be in conversation with Hettie, sharing images and insights from this long-running project that brings visibility to the ubiquitous - yet often invisible - labour of pumping milk that takes place in the American workplace.
This event is ticketed on a pay-what-you-can basis which allows us to pay our speakers a fee for their time.
If the ticket price is a barrier to your participation in this event please email us, free tickets are available.
A link will be sent to all attendees on the day, shortly before the start of the talk
Starting on time at 2pm, the 45 minute conversation will be followed by a 15 minute Q&A
Full run time: 60 minutes
We would invite attendees to sign in at 1.55 to ensure a timely start
AWP have ONE FREE COPY of this extraordinary book to give away as part of this event! Listen out for details.
This talk will be recorded and a link sent to all ticket holders to watch at their leisure.
"Milk Factory records the invisible labor inside America’s lactation rooms, taking viewers into disparate sites such as a prison, banking firm, farm laborers’ tent, schools, an airport, and the U.S. Capitol. Botz’s photographs honor this unrecognized labor and challenge romanticized portrayals of motherhood, reflecting contradictions inherent in modern parenthood and public policy. The photographs are accompanied by essays from Corinne Botz, Hettie Judah, and Mathilde Cohen, along with first-hand accounts of pumping experiences from women across the socio-economic spectrum. The images and texts subtly comment on the power relationships that exist at the intersection of women’s bodies with employment and politics. The solitary pumping experiences take on collective power through the accumulation of photographs and text. Deeply personal and urgently political, Milk Factory is an embodied study of reproductive labor and the architecture of care.
Corinne Botz is a photographic artist, filmmaker, and educator whose books include The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death and Haunted Houses. Her work has been widely exhibited including the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Wellcome Collection, Kunstmuseum Basel, Turner Contemporary, Alice Austen House, and Benrubi Gallery. Botz’s photography has been written about by TheNew York Times, The New Yorker, Village Voice, Granta, Bookforum, Foam, the Paris Review, and Hyperallergic, among others. "