My Mother, My Son

Flexi cover with tipped-in chromogenic print
72 pages
12 color / 21 duotone plates
10 × 12 inches

Using the title of her 2004 photograph My Mother, My Son as an inspirational and creative starting point, Mary Frey draws from her extensive archive of photographs to create a visual narrative that collapses linear time.

Frey intimately and masterfully captures subjects at ease in environments that feel, at once, deeply familiar yet detached from their own reality. Grounded in the intersection of the domestic, the everyday, and the profoundly common rituals that define our shared humanity, the black-and-white and color images in My Mother, My Son. evoke something closer to the elusive imprint of memory.

Frey explores the mystery of life: the finite nature of death and the legacies left behind. Past and future converge within each present, fleeting moment. With a tipped-in chromogenic print on its cover, My Mother, My Son. stylistically recalls a family album—both commemorative and enduring, if only through the story it chooses to tell.