"Mom": The life of an American makeup artist through the eyes of her daughter

EVERY DAY PHOTOGRAPHERS AROUND THE WORLD looking for new ways to tell stories or to capture what we previously did not notice. We choose interesting photo projects and ask their authors what they wanted to say. This week we are publishing the "Mom" project of a young American photographer Molly Matalon, who she dedicated to her mother and tried to better understand her own person with the help of art.

I picked up a camera in the early 2000s, when I was in school. I liked to shoot portraits of friends, which they then put on a userpic on MySpace, and photograph groups at concerts. Later I entered the art school. My job as a photographer is to pull into the light and see the illusions that photography creates.

My mother and I have never been truly close. So I started taking pictures of her in order to improve our relationship and try to become her friend. In this sense, photography is my assistant. Mom works as a makeup artist and cosmetologist, she is a very cheerful, friendly and stubborn person, and we are very different with her. The project "Mom" shows her as a woman in the big world. Most of the photos are mother's portraits; from the way she dresses, preens and what she does, her personality is formed. Of course, I had the opportunity to get close to her as close as only a daughter can do: I took pictures of her in the bedroom and in moments when my mother had a minimum of clothes. And in this sense, looking at the photo, you can catch a hint of our relationship with my mother, we are not like the typical mother and daughter - we are more friends.