Eleanor Oakes

Nationality

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milk and tears

Milk And Tears

'milk and tears' reimagines photographic history by using mothers' breast milk in the salted paper process, reconsidering the print as a living vessel that can hold care, labor, ancestry, and our fragile entanglement with the environment.

Project by Eleanor Oakes
love's labor

Love's Labor

"love’s labor" uses breastmilk as a light-sensitive agent in the salted paper process to address urgent issues of care and reflect on nourishment, bodily memory as transferred through ancestry, and society’s reliance on the unsupported labor of parenting.

Project by Eleanor Oakes