In the era of poverty with many children, the mother's shoulders are burdened with unbearable weight.
In 1960, Barry Schuttler, an American pastor in his early thirties, came to Taiwan to work as a missionary and assist with material relief. When Pastor Xue Peide looked at the land and people in Taiwan, the various images of Taiwanese mothers, carrying children, hard labor, silence, smiling, etc., all attracted his attention and naturally became the object of his hunting.
Perhaps Pastor Xue did not deliberately take the theme of mother as the theme of photography, but only noticed the hard-working figures of mothers in all corners very naturally, and involuntarily pressed the shutter.
Motherhood is the supreme expression of human nature, the origin of all love, just like the early spring sun sprinkled on the ice and snow, bringing warmth and vitality. Although the mother figure in Pastor Xue's camera has a common human emotion, for people living in the land of Taiwan, the mother's back also represents the deep memory of the difficult family in that era.
Raccoon's mother
No household appliances: the mother could only rely on her own hands. She was the first person in the family to get up, and she didn't know the taste of "snooze" all her life. They were busy getting up to cook rice on the fire, and then washing piles of clothes in the sink or stream, and due to repeated rubbing of the soaked clothes, their palms became thicker, and their arms and waists were sore until they were paralyzed. The picture shows several women dressed by the stream, and the traditional role of mother is to shoulder heavy household chores in addition to raising children. The mother's solid back, reflecting a little sparkle, is moving.
Grandma is the mother of her mother
A grandmother carrying a grandson on her back. Because of the large number of children, sometimes the mother who is engaged in labor must entrust the young child to the care of grandma, and many children grow up with a close relationship with grandma, who works all her life and is full of wind and frost, both as a mother and a mother.
Nursing mom on the street
A mother breastfeeds while talking to a friend. Public breastfeeding has become easy and common for them, and society has become accustomed to it. Usually women and friends sit on the street and chat, babies occasionally cry, that is, breastfeeding, the role of mother is this, no one is surprised.
The mother who sells pineapples
There is not enough for the household: the mother must help take care of her husband's family business, even if it is hand-to-hand chores or set up snacks and fruit stalls at night markets. The picture shows a mother carrying her child to sell pineapples at a night market. Working mothers, whether working in factories or selling in the market, are left to work behind their children's backs.
Mommy when you're a seamstress
If the family does not have its own business, go to the factory to work as a sewing worker, even if the child is only a few months old, you have to carry it yourself, there is no parental leave, no special allowance, only hard work. Mother is not only a symbol of love, but also synonymous with all kinds of hard work.
Singing boy play mom
A mother who makes a living performing traditional singing and playing, takes two children backstage. At the invitation of temple fairs around the world, the song and opera class toured everywhere, and the mother could only take the child around, and the slightly older children sometimes joined the mother's work and appeared on the scene to help earn a few cents.
Mother picking coal
A mother from a miner's family, packed with coal in a flat basket and carried it to other places, her young daughter was helping her mother shovel coal, and her childish face was stained with black cinder.
Feed the mother of the child to eat
A mother uses chopsticks to feed the child with her back in her spare time, and there is infinite pity in the smile at the corner of the mother's mouth.
Wordless maternal love
A young mother wrapped her child in a floral cloth and loaded her boundless love. The mother's simple figure, resolute face and full of security of the child, beautiful and peaceful picture, like an eternal movement of life.