In Midlife, Carucci confronts the realities of aging and transition. Over seven years, she turned the camera on herself and her family to explore common themes of physical change, identity, and mortality, particularly from the perspective of womanhood in midlife.

Her documentation of a hysterectomy, shifting parental roles, and emotional recalibrations creates a portrait of this life stage as complex, charged, and commonly human. Some photographs are paired with paintings made from her own blood.

As The New Yorker wrote, “In Midlife, Carucci confronts the often-overlooked realities of aging and womanhood. Her photographs highlight the details and imperfections of her own body and her family's everyday life, emphasizing signs of aging such as gray hair, wrinkles, and changes in physical appearance. By focusing closely on these features, she elevates them with a sense of gravity and drama, challenging societal norms that dictate women's aging should be invisible…”

It is my midlife years with the laughter and the jokes I make with my friends about the comic aspect of an aging body, ours, and the wisdom which indeed, as the cliché says, comes with age. The appreciation of certain times in our lives, somehow allows for to "more" out of seemingly "less", less time remaining, less need to prove, even fewer internal organs! Last year of elementary school for the kids, last year of middle school, the final years with our parents. I know I must love, touch, and laugh. Every year that goes by I joke more; I try to laugh more, I have to. I feel more and hurt more and fear more.

I love more.

And I am only half way through.” (From Carucci’s text in Midlife)