ABOUT TERESA
My name is Teresa Pistorius, I am a freelance photographer from Hamburg and currently doing my Master in Photography. In my work I deal intensively with the human body, the inner emotional world and the outer perception. I also use staged photography and self-portraiture to capture intimate and sensitive moments in a poetic and artistic way. For this, I often find subjects in my immediate environment that touch me. It is important to me to create visibility and to enable a close, unbiased exchange between the portrayed and the viewer.
ABOUT HER WORK
My body, fused with a new life. Two hearts beating inside me, one powerful and calm, the other furiously fast and full of energy. Host and creator at the same time. A feeling that the old me is fading and with the new person inside me, a new identity is also emerging for me, for us as parents. A bloody birth, the first separation from my body. The pain that accompanies this process seems almost appropriate: a beginning of the beginning not only for the child, but also for us.
I was 16 when something first grew in my belly - not a child, but a tumor the size of a grapefruit, which cost me not only my hair, but also an ovary. And then the joy, the love, the fright and the courage when I became pregnant many years later. What does it mean for me, for my body? What does it do to me when something grows in my body again? Who am I, as a mother?
