It?s Been Pouring : The Dark Secret of the First Year of Motherhood

Papo, Rachel (PHT); Papo, Rachel; Gremmen, Hans (CRT)

ISBN 10: 3969000785 / ISBN 13: 9783969000786

Published by Kehrer Verlag, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: It?s Been Pouring : The Dark Secret of the First Year of Motherhood
• Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3969000785
• ISBN 13: 9783969000786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

A sensitively narrated photo project about postpartum depression

Postpartum depression is in many ways no longer taboo; it is an affliction on the lips of most pregnant women as something they fear, and which they have been told counseling and medications can help. And yet – when Rachel Papo experienced it herself after the birth of both her children, and when she interviewed other women in the midst of their suffering – she realized that there is something we are still not seeing, or are only willing to look at askance. With It’s Been Pouring, Papo sets out to capture the voices of mothers in their darkest moments, while interweaving them with her own. This collection of photographs and interviews shines a direct light on their experiences, exposing the unbearable tension that exists between the miracle of birth and the horror that follows, leading the viewer through a narrative of despair.

About the Author

Rachel Papo was born in 1970 in Columbus, Ohioand was raised in Israel. She began photographing as a teenager and attended arenowned fine-arts high-school in Haifa, Israel. At age eighteen she served inthe Israeli Air Force as a photographer. She earned a BFA in Fine Arts fromOhio State University (1991-96), and an MFA in Photography from the School ofVisual Arts in New York City (2002-05). 

Rachel's photographs are included in numerous public and private collections,and have been exhibited and published worldwide. She is represented by ClampArtGallery in New York City, and has published two monographs, Serial No. 3817131 (powerHouse Books,2008) and Homeschooled (KehrerVerlag, 2016). She has been selected a finalist for the "Santa Fe Prizefor Photography", and has been awarded a NYFA Fellowship in 2006. In 2009Rachel won a Lucie Award for "Deeper Perspective Photographer of theYear".

She lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, New York, working onpersonal projects and accepting commissions.