Be Hers Be Mine: A Surrogacy Journey

Be Hers Be Mine: A Surrogacy Journey

Djamila Grossman, Tom Licht, Djamila Grossman (Photographer)
$45.00
Publication Date: September 3rd, 2019
Publisher:
Kehrer Verlag
ISBN:
9783868289138
Pages:
144
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Description

After eight years and numerous failed attempts to get pregnant, a Swiss couple decide to have their baby born by surrogacy. Although it is banned in Switzerland, they ask a woman in the USA to carry their child in her womb. Photographers Tom Licht and Djamila Grossman describe the journey of the couple and the reasons behind their decision. They join the parents for the child's birth in Wisconsin, USA, because they are intrigued by the questions their story offers. Surrogacy mirrors a global reality where lines blur between technology, human biology, ethics, and law. The complexity of the topic is re ected in documentary-style sequences, stilllife motifs, portraits, documents, and interviews.

About the Author

Djamila Grossman is a German-American photographer living in Zurich. She shoots internationally for editorial and commercial clients and continuously completes personal long-term projects. Her work has an intuitive approach and visual language, her photos are honest yet colorful. Djamila is a graduate of the University of Arizona and of the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin. Born in 1972 Tom Licht lives and works as a freelance photographer and architect in Zurich and Berlin. He focuses on architectural photography, portraits and personal projects. After growing up in a Thuringian village in East Germany, he lived in Jena, Weimar and spent some years in New York City. Tom Licht`s work is influenced by questions of identity and its process of change over time. Utilizing historic documents, he invokes feelings of alienation, longing and dissociation. Tom Licht`s projects were published by Kehrer Heidelberg and were reviewed in the New York Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Zeit Online. His book Father, Son and the War was nominated for the German Photobook Award in 2016.