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25.01.2022 Back in lockdown 1.0, when creativity was still a resident of my, not-yet-muted mind, I forced my family to make monochromatic portraits which looked nothing at... all like my usual work. Those seven portraits showered me with 40,000 new Instagram followers in two weeks. It felt very strangely like cheating. Like putting rainbows and unicorns in the front window of a shop that actually just sells all kinds of weather, and horses. I remember thinking, if that whirlwind just led one person to book me for a job, I’d be very happy. Turns out that wonderful person was Milly, the editor of Medibank ‘Live Better’ magazine. Here’s some of the work I was commissioned to make in between lockdowns for the most recent edition. I call this fortuitous turn of events, pandemic fruit. More than three months into lockdown 2.0, it's in limited supply, but it's sweet. Thank you Milly. Thank you, previously un-muted mind. See more

25.01.2022 Ahead of Mother's Day tomorrow, here is a quiet nod to the wonder, the struggle and the heroism that is motherhood. I want to thank every mother who has allowe...d me to witness their vulnerability and share their story while making family documentaries the last 5 years. There is a still a great deal of uncertainty around when I can start rebooking sessions, but I am taking deposits for the small number of 'day in the life' shoots I will do this year, once restrictions are lifted. I'm also very keen to get back to shooting in different parts of Australia and the world when safe to do so. Please reach out and start a conversation if you'd like to be on my email list for updates on my Australian and international photo shoot availability when it comes. Email [email protected] or say hi through the contact form on my website. www.rowenameadows.com.au www.instagram.com/rowenameadowsphoto

25.01.2022 Frankie and her gramps, Tom.

25.01.2022 I’m pretty sure parenting is just wondering how you’re going to keep giving so much of yourself, every single day, until forever. And also, it’s a lot of wondering when you can lie down again. I hope you don’t mind me posting this photo featuring your behind to illustrate my point @andrewtheredmon

22.01.2022 Some of you very kindly asked and so I have ordered a limited number of 1000 piece puzzles available for your lockdown/quarantine/iso/general boredom pleasure. ... I never thought this pandemic would result in me selling puzzles with my damn face all over them but here they are and now you can laugh at how silly we are while you piece together a rainbow. 2020 deserves some colour. I promise it's not so easy that you feel ripped off, not so hard that you want to throw things at the wall. https://www.rowenameadows.com.au/shop-1?page=2

21.01.2022 Portrait of Violet, at twelve. "As in all transformations, there is an element of sadness. Something very familiar, very comforting is being left behind for th...e unknown, which beckons her, siren-like and irresistible. She is as Rilke once observed, seated before her own heart's curtain. It allows only the tiniest peek. Intolerable, the waiting and the melancholy. All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy." This, my most favourite quote from Sally Mann's, 'At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women'.

20.01.2022 Portrait of Violet, on the precipice of thirteen.

20.01.2022 Three single reportage awards and one story award from This is Reportage: Family feels like wonderfully shiny news. With almost 4400 images submitted from around the world, it’s a serious honour to be part of this competition and community elevating the important work of documentary family photographers.

19.01.2022 The Webber family are stuck in my head and it's taking me a thousand years to edit their shoot but I promise it's nearly done Shaun Webber and Beck Webber.

19.01.2022 Some things, loved by me: petrichor (the earthy smell before rain) and vellichor (the strange wistfulness of second-hand bookstores) gummy bears squished together with m&m’s on the left side of my mouth ... overgrown and/or excessively mobile eyebrows dresses that swish audibly when twirled inanimate objects that appear animate nervously playing slightly off key pianos in op shops (thrift stores) friends who let me yell at them when making their portrait crooked noses cheeseburgers, eaten in silence mismatched anything, especially earrings and shoes long periods of solitude and out loud self-talk Mandy Patinkin in The Princess Bride the smell of very worn leather, especially wallets that have sat on countless beer-soaked bars curiosity, unbridled and the people who let me indulge mine realisations about oneself or loved ones that can only be made by the separation viewing a photograph provides people who look at my instagram and decide it’s worth a follow (you) people who keep following my instagram after reading long, self-indulgent posts like this one (you)

16.01.2022 Fourth place in the portrait section of the Australian Photography Awards - APA with this image of Violet feels like pandemic fruit. Like many things in 2020, ...this record of my daughter just about to turn 13 wouldn't exist if it weren't for the creativity lockdown forced us to seek. In all honesty, most days there was scarce motivation, bordering on disdain for the camera and a noisy uncertainty around choosing a somewhat unreliable career. Other, very very rare days there was a collaboration like this one and I'm grateful for it. Enormous thanks to Harriet Tarbuck, Tom Goldner and Angus Scott at the Australian Photography Awards - APA for the way they put their whole hearts into this important place of recognition for Australian photographers. Congratulations to all the finalists including my dear friend Mikaela Martin. Check out the finalists gallery here: https://www.australianphotographyawards.com.au//2020-port/

15.01.2022 Nicole is relieved to greet husband, Dario after a long day of newborn haze. Thinking of you Nic xo

13.01.2022 Sisters in a lovely but fleeting pocket of sibling harmony and willingness to be photographed.

13.01.2022 Nights in Khao Lak, Thailand, 2018. @ Khao Lak

12.01.2022 Violet at twelve, standing on the bed where has done much of her online schooling these past two months.

11.01.2022 Many forts will be constructed, many walls will fall down. Be gentle.

10.01.2022 When one sister inevitably begins to move towards the neon glow of teenage freedom and the other feels a bit like a shrinking dot in her rearview mirror, there ...is a change of sibling season that brings a kind of hard-to-name grief. Cue a pandemic with almost seven months of lockdown, homeschool, and a drastically narrowed social experience and there appears an opportunity to re-story the magic of a shared childhood. Maybe it’s a little deluded, but amongst the sting of relentless conflict that has come with lack of time apart, this year my daughters have re-established a closeness and sense of play I hope will stay with them through the volatility of adolescence. I see it being delicately crystallised in these images. Maybe objects in that rearview mirror will appear closer than they once seemed. #pandemicfruit See more

09.01.2022 My friends, Elisabeth and Ole Stisen, let me photograph them on Friday. They are beautiful proof of how much there is to learn about relationships from those further along the journey of life. I’m interested in spending time with older couples within the Melbourne area, photographing the intimacy of their relationship as humans, independent of age. Please reach out if you know somebody who might be interested in being part of this project. @ Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

08.01.2022 Last August, sisters Sennu, Saina and their families travelled to Rangeley, Maine to spend their summer holidays together. I was lucky to visit this magestic part of the world and witness all the ways they made togetherness matter. I'll be heading back to the US this August for a handful of vacation or regular 'day in the life' sessions. Message me! www.dayinyourlifeproject.com.au

07.01.2022 Bob Meadows reads the newspaper under the somewhat sparse shade of the underwear tree.

07.01.2022 FREE WORLDWIDE PUZZLE SHIPPING ALL WEEKEND!!! For your lockdown/holiday/general boredom pleasure, get a puzzle to remind you of the ways 2020 made us all work a little harder to find levity. There’s still time for Christmas delivery, no matter where you live. Love from me (link in bio to shop) @ Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

07.01.2022 Loving is tending and tending and tending.

07.01.2022 Maggie and Ted.

05.01.2022 I'm honoured to have won a family story award with This is Reportage: Family for the photos I made almost exactly a year ago with Lauren Tebbetts Bodwell and family in Maine, USA. I really CANNOT wait until I'm able to travel and shoot again. Please reach out if you'd like to be on my list for international documentary family sessions in the (hopefully not too far away) future. Row x

03.01.2022 Bob Meadows and his granddaughters at bedtime. #grandpasofinstagram

02.01.2022 All seven members of the Webber family in a tree at New Farm Park, in my home town, Brisbane. Shaun Webber www.dayinyourlifeproject.com.au

01.01.2022 115 days of social isolation