Rahel and I really enjoyed our time together in a Berlin studio.
Teilnehmer: Model Rahel van der Meer
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Rahel and I really enjoyed our time together in a Berlin studio.
Teilnehmer: Model Rahel van der Meer
The "Carrying" series I created from August 2024 to April 2025, spanning the entire period of pregnancy, and brings together photographic positions on pregnant physicality – raw, calm, and radically visible. In each shot, pregnancy reveals itself not as an idealized cliché, but as a real, physically experienced, intimate, and socially shaped transformation.
The body in these images carries – visibly and invisibly – weight, expectation, responsibility, history, and the future. It carries not only new life, but also signs of power, vulnerability, control, and self-empowerment. The conscious decision for analog black-and-white photography creates a timeless space in which the supposedly private becomes public. The poses range from upright confrontation to quiet inwardness – always with a focus on dignity and self-determination.
The series does not invite us to contemplate "motherhood," but rather to engage with the pregnant body as a political, aesthetic, and emotional site.
Mein zweites Modelshooting fand in meiner damals noch sehr puristisch eingerichteten
Wohnung statt. Zu Gast war Kriz – eine kreative, sportliche und lebhafte junge Frau. Sie
brachte gute Laune, Motivation und eigene Ideen mit, was die Zusammenarbeit angenehm
gemacht hat.
Das Shooting verlief locker und hat Spaß gemacht. Es sind einige interessante Bilder
entstanden, die sich deutlich von meinem heutigen Stil unterscheiden. In der Serie sehe ich eine gewisse Eigenständigkeit und ich könnte mir vorstellen, wieder mit Kriz zusammen zu arbeiten.