The Mother’s Room is a project that explores what it means to be a mom in the workplace. Nothing encapsulates this experience more than the space created specifically for mothers: The pumping room. 

These rooms represent a microcosm of motherhood today. The quality and accessibility of these spaces—if lucky enough to have one at all—takes on a larger meaning when viewed in the context of our paying work.

Paid work aligns to a capitalist system in which impressive job titles, slick office space and illustrious companies garner value and status. But within this system, there is a small room where another type of work takes place: Human-first work.

Breastfeeding is the full-time job within the full-time job. One that leaves us scrounging for time within our 9-5. 

By opening the door to these spaces, we open up a larger conversation about what we view and value as work today. 

We invite mothers to photograph their pumping rooms and share their stories to make these hidden spaces—and hidden labor—visible.