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I have portrayed the young women I met walking along the Regent’s Canal, and other waterways, in London, and with them the fears of a mother who sees her daughters become adult women, precisely in these years characterised by uncertainty and evolution. A mother can teach everything she knows and prepare her daughters to the fullest to cope with difficulties, but transmitting the experience and awareness of the dangers of the world is more complicated. The challenge of facing obstacles, is made even more difficult for women, especially in these times marked by climate change, pandemics, sexism, discrimination, economic and political instability and, in England, by the effects of Brexit.

This book is also about the relationship with my daughters. A lot of photographers, especially women photographers, such as Sally Mann or Sian Davey, photographed their own daughters.

When my daughters were kids I took snapshots, of course, but never proper photographs or portraits. Then when they were adolescent they didn’t want me to photograph them, pose for me, or allow me in their inner world and on the other side I didn’t want to invade their personal space or force them. So in this body of work and book I also projected on other young women the desire to be close and photograph my own daughters.