At Sixty, Photographs of My Mother

Daughters look to their mothers as models for what it means to be a woman. My mother taught me that the expression of womanhood can be richly layered, complicated, and even contradictory. In these photographs I have tried to capture the essence of being a woman, and in particular, a woman of sixty. The act of photographing my mother as she is now is my response to her mortality, as well as my own.