Jamie Diamond: 365 days: 1938/2017 | LENSCRATCH

Photographer Jamie Diamond’s new body of work, 365 days: 1938/2017, is a poignant documentation of life almost 88 years apart, showing us that motherhood is a timeless event, no matter where we live in the world.  After purchasing a 1938 photo album while visiting Germany, she was struck by a collection of images that chronicled the first year of motherhood. After having her own son, Jamie re-photographed the images, layering her life onto one before her, mirroring the daily joys of raising a child. This work is even more arresting in our own fragile and challenging period in history as Jamie realized the 1938 photographs were taken at the beginning of World War II, another period of uncertain times.