My work is inspired by conventional photographic genres e.g. the family album, historic and archival images and postcard images. By re-contextualising the images, new meanings can be created and the images can be read in a multiplicity of ways. 'Mothers and Daughters' is inspired by the family album, and is a response and attempt to explore in more depth, relationships that are hidden or simply touched upon or hinted at within the conventional family album genre. I worked with the six mother/daughter pairs, interviewing them all and asking them the same questions about their relationship with one another. Although the idea of displaying images of mothers and daughters as a means of change is a fairly simplistic one, I decided to aim towards representing some of the complexities of the mother-daughter bond. Motherhood and 'daughterhood' are both socially constructed identities bound by history and culture. Our cultural legacy of images of motherhood belongs mainly to Christianity – the Virgin and the (boy)child. The final photos that are shown here are the culmination of two photography sessions with each pair, the first working in collaboration with the pair about how they wanted their relationship to be represented photographically. Having examined the photos and read the interviews thoroughly, I then directed the second shoot in a way that I felt showed aspects of the relationships that the mothers and daughters had shared with me.