In the photo series “Motherland”, the photographer Tatsiana Tkachova immerses herself in the microcosm of her own family in Belarus. In this very personal work, she documents her mother’s life and explores the connections among women in her family. The topics that fascinate her are the relationship between generations, what it means to be a mother, and how childhood memories influence us our whole life.

At the heart of the series is the house where generations of her family have grown up. Now her mother lives there, visited regularly by her sister. The images of her daily routine are deliberately made extremely monotonous, without any movement, creating the impression that life has stopped.
She took the first image in 2018 and is continuing to work on this story.

“In my story, I revert to the subject of roots and memory, which affect every one of us and remain in our minds forever. While documenting my mother’s life, it seems as if I can recognize myself in it.”