Spanning nearly a decade, Mother chronicles Carucci’s experience of raising her twin children, from pregnancy through their early school years, with a portrayal of love, chaos, exhaustion, and joy, offering a layered and complex view of motherhood.

As her children grow, so too does the world of the photographs, expanding from the domestic interior to New York’s streets, reflecting the family's deepening ties to community and the passage of time.

Mother explores the multifaceted nature of motherhood, its highs and lows, and challenges idealized representations of parenthood.

“In some ways, the process felt familiar to me. Parenthood meant putting myself on hold, much as I had done through my photography before I became a mother. For me, photography had always meant to observe someone so completely that I became absorbed by my subject. But there was a limit to the experience: this time-framed version of me would disappear by the end of the shoot. Motherhood infused my entire life with such observation and absorption. After the birth and those first tough weeks, I felt (to my husband’s horror) that I had completely drowned in being a mother to my children. That scared me at times—I was afraid motherhood would take me over, limit me, restrict me. But instead it became a window onto so much of what I feel life is really about. It distilled everything to its essence, allowing me to go as deeply as I possibly could with another person and with myself, enriching me both as an individual and as an artist.” (From Carucci’s text in Mother)