Lydia Goldblatt - Twist
from the series Fugue.
Fugue is a series about love and grief, mothering and losing a mother, intimacy and distance, told through photographs and writing. Centring on the domestic space and made over the course of four years, it tells a story that is neither apologetic nor idealised. ‘I wanted to be honest about what I was struggling with, about the feelings of claustrophobia and rage, as much as intimacy and love. These are feelings so often hidden by mothers, so often silenced as unacceptable.’
‘Photographing became a way of weaving past through present. I was able to think about the transformations that accompany motherhood and loss. And I could challenge the archetypes and taboos of motherhood. Beyond mothering, I have been able to explore a wider sense of caregiving through the relationships that span generations.”
The photographs depict a rhythm of domestic life, inherited objects and images made at night, tapping into the dissonance between domestic tranquillity and a sense of invisible unease.
Lydia Goldblatt is a British photographic artist based in London. Her work is concerned with female identities and is interested in the ways personal experience informs collective understanding. She creatively fuses the approaches of both documentary and constructed photography. Of her work, she writes: “I am looking to see within experiences and moments that are unfolding, to reach something that speaks about being human, about our emotions, connections, and interior life as much if not more than external appearance.”
Lydia Goldblatt attended London College of Communications, studying a Master’s Degree in Photography. Her work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Somerset House London, the National Museum Gdansk, the GoEun Museum of Photography and the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Germany. Her first book, Still Here, is held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum National Art Library, and her work is held in numerous public and private collections. Lydia received an award for her portrait ‘Eden’ in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, and the GRAIN Projects Artist Commission. She was awarded the Grand Prix at Tokyo International Photography Festival, and the Royal Photographic Society IPE Award in 2025. Her second book, Fugue, was published by GOST Books in 2024.
Lydia Goldblatt - Twist
from the series Fugue.
Fugue is a series about love and grief, mothering and losing a mother, intimacy and distance, told through photographs and writing. Centring on the domestic space and made over the course of four years, it tells a story that is neither apologetic nor idealised. ‘I wanted to be honest about what I was struggling with, about the feelings of claustrophobia and rage, as much as intimacy and love. These are feelings so often hidden by mothers, so often silenced as unacceptable.’
‘Photographing became a way of weaving past through present. I was able to think about the transformations that accompany motherhood and loss. And I could challenge the archetypes and taboos of motherhood. Beyond mothering, I have been able to explore a wider sense of caregiving through the relationships that span generations.”
The photographs depict a rhythm of domestic life, inherited objects and images made at night, tapping into the dissonance between domestic tranquillity and a sense of invisible unease.
Lydia Goldblatt is a British photographic artist based in London. Her work is concerned with female identities and is interested in the ways personal experience informs collective understanding. She creatively fuses the approaches of both documentary and constructed photography. Of her work, she writes: “I am looking to see within experiences and moments that are unfolding, to reach something that speaks about being human, about our emotions, connections, and interior life as much if not more than external appearance.”
Lydia Goldblatt attended London College of Communications, studying a Master’s Degree in Photography. Her work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Somerset House London, the National Museum Gdansk, the GoEun Museum of Photography and the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Germany. Her first book, Still Here, is held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum National Art Library, and her work is held in numerous public and private collections. Lydia received an award for her portrait ‘Eden’ in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, and the GRAIN Projects Artist Commission. She was awarded the Grand Prix at Tokyo International Photography Festival, and the Royal Photographic Society IPE Award in 2025. Her second book, Fugue, was published by GOST Books in 2024.