Series - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Conceptual photography »

"My mom doesn't work. Well, she cooks, keeps the house clean, but she hasn't got a real job" my son answered his friend's question: "What does your mom do?".

I was nearby and heard this conversation. At that moment, I felt like a slacker and wondered what makes up my everyday life? If this life, which sometimes seems to consume me completely, is not a job, then what? Yes, I don't go to the office, I don't get an official salary. Not so long ago, my maternity leave with my third child ended, and now I am a housewife.

I‘m embarrassed to say that I‘m a housewife and in my defense, I always clarify that I have three children and that I have a lot of worries with them.

But at what time does the housewife‘s working day start and end? I don‘t know. According to my feelings, in a house where children live, it never ends.

There’s always some work awaiting for you to be done. Those actions that are done on autopilot, in which a woman seems to dissolve into the house, so that everything seems to be done by itself.

That’s why you can not see the face of my heroine in the project. You can‘t even always find her in a photograph at first glance.

All the housework women do is often considered by the other members of a household as an invisible attribute that a home naturally possesses, not labor worth being recognized or appreciated.