08/03/2026
On this International Women’s Day, I’m sharing an image from my series Nowhere to Go. Throughout history, the consolidation of authoritarian power has often gone hand in hand with attempts to control women’s bodies.
In this project, I document assisted home birth in Texas, one of the most conservative states in the United States, marked by a record number of maternity ward closures and one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country.
This image shows Rebecca Wiley, who chose to give birth at home, assisted by a single midwife. As hospital maternity units continue to close across the state, many women are left with few options and must rethink how and where they give birth.
Through the series, I follow mothers and their midwives across Texas. The work explores how some women reclaim control over their bodies and their birth experience, choosing paths that are not primarily shaped by hospital profit models or the growing normalization of medical interventions such as C-sections.
“Through this work, I seek to deconstruct the American myth. It questions Tocqueville’s idea of the ‘soft despotism’ of bodies in a Trump-era America that seems to have reached the limits of progress, revealing the dead end of a system.”
The series is supported by the CNAP – Centre national des arts plastiques
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