About the Book
Mendi is a former porn star who lives together with her mother and her sister’s son, Richard, an Autistic boy. Mendi cares about them both. Mendi struggles with obesity and diabetes; she has lived on a disability pension since she left the porn industry. She doesn’t like going outside and mostly plays on the computer or cards with the family. Her mother Elizabeth is a pensioner who is always at home too. She likes watching talk shows on TV. They quarrel a lot with Mendi, mostly because of the lack of money. Richard is not Mendi’s son; he was left to her care by Mendi’s sister, who, after finding out that her son was Autistic, left him. Mendi loves Richard as her own son. The project is about the family’s complex relationship; about Mendi’s everyday struggles to care about her mother, her nephew and to bear the unbearable thing that is life.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Fine Art Photography
- Additional Categories Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: Large Square, 12×12 in, 30×30 cm
# of Pages: 90 -
Isbn
- Hardcover, Dust Jacket: 9798211327139
- Publish Date: Feb 11, 2013
- Language English
- Keywords family;, sexworkers;, love;
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About the Creator
Lilla Szász
Budapest, Hungary
Lilla Szász was born 1977 in Budapest, lives and works in Lisbon and Budapest. Her sensitive, diary-like series of photos explores social taboos and different forms of otherness. Her works portray human vulnerability and give an insight into the lives of marginalized social groups, prostitutes, young criminals living in institutions, or even an HIV-positive elderly woman. Her projects have been exhibited at the Photo España in Madrid, the National Gallery in Warsaw and the Fotohof in Salzburg, among others. In 2018 and 2019, she conducted researches in Lisbon, at Hangar Artist Residency, and New York as a Fellow of the Asylum Arts Grant.