Thank You Mum is first of all a work of resistance which lives through different media: photographs, videos and installations.

Charlotte Mano is taking images of her mother since the latter has been diagnosed with an incurable disease.

What is there to be done when you find yourself in front of such an obscure destiny? When the countdown has started, what’s left to do for your loved ones?

These are the questions the photographer asked herself whilst isolated at home, with her mother in the French countryside, Mano firstly tried to express the strong mother-daughter relationship which slowly evolved into a modest and poetic tribute to her mother.

We can’t deny an eerie atmosphere, almost esoteric, like a ritual – as if the photographer was trying body and soul to reverse the curse, using anything to freeze time and keep her mother beside herself: asking for a miracle.

Mano’s work is an ongoing project that grows everyday by documenting her daily life with her mother. She confides:

“it’s the most meaningful and powerful project I ever worked on as a photographer. I truly hope that the pieces of Thank You Mum that you are looking at now, will become over the years, the foundations of a life that everyone can reflect on”.

Charlotte Mano was born in 1990 in the south-west of France, and currently lives and works in Paris. After acquiring a degree in Modern Literature, and one in Cultural Communication, Charlotte decided to join the prestigious Gobelins School of Image where she graduated in 2017. Following group exhibitions in noteworthy festivals such as Les Rencontres d’Arles, Les Rencontres photographiques du 10eme, Circulation(s), Les Photographiques du Mans and being a finalist of several competitions including Lens Culture, she then won the jury special prize in the Bourse du Talent which should encourage and boost her emerging career.

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