Justine Kurland’s Intimate New Book Captures Life on the Road With Her Son

There is a universalising tendency to images of motherhood (believe me, one need only browse one’s Instagram feed above a certain age to feel this). But though the idea of a mother is something society has conjured as neutral, unanswerable and benign, it is anything but. This peculiar charge to depictions of motherhood is something many artist-mothers come to understand, and perhaps wrestle with. Constance Debré – who writes the foreword for Justine Kurland’s new photobook with Mack, This Train – has articulated it… read more >