Mom Captures Her Son Growing Up In 10 Powerful Portraits

Internationally renowned photographer Annie Wang, from Taipei City, Taiwan, decided early on that the stereotypical image of mother and child wasn’t going to work for her.

She sees motherhood as a long and complex journey, one that needn’t be solely about sacrifice and selflessness. She sees parallels between motherhood and her work as an artist, creating something new and nurturing it through various stages of existence. “The Mother is like an artist doing her work while calling upon her own wisdom,” she says. “The Mother not only creates a life but also creates continually a continuous and fluid matrix of experience between Mother and Child.”

Her series ‘The Mother As A Creator‘ is an attempt to represent the fusion of artist and mother, portraying her and her son in various layers as he grows up. “Here I take a family photograph each year of my son and myself, and then the next year, take another image of us in front of the previous picture,” she explains. “Therefore, different layers of my son and I emerge on the same surface after a lengthy accumulation of detail and texture. Different stages of my son and I are overlaid, and from the different pictures, we have created a dialogue with each other in this dimension upon compressed dimension. From within these dimensions will emerge a new depiction/visualization of Motherhood.”

The results are incredible and have touched many hearts around the world. Scroll down below to check them out for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments!