Verena Blok — Love Shit

‘Love Shit’ explores self-determination through documentary photography and text. Verena Blok creates intimate portraits of pregnant individuals, made over two years and woven with stories from an abortion clinic, revealing the complexities of womanhood.

‘Love Shit’ is about self-determination. Through both documentary photography and text, artist Verena Blok constructs a series of intimate portraits of pregnant individuals. Photographed over a period of two years, these portraits are combined with stories gathered during her work at an abortion clinic in the Netherlands. The book explores the dilemmas surrounding procreation – (un)wanted pregnancy, motherhood, childhood – and ultimately strives to reveal the complexities of womanhood through an honest and unfiltered lens.