currently accepting mothers for sessions between june-september 2026!
Framed Mothers is the continuation of Tiffany Griffith’s deeply personal project, which began as her MFA thesis titled The Other Mother. Initially focused on her perspective of her children, Framed Mothers now expands to capture the journeys of mothers from all walks of life, telling the stories of their unique experiences with motherhood. This project shines a light on both the beauty and the hardship of being a mother, an experience that often requires immense resilience, patience, and strength.
At the core of Framed Mothers is the understanding that motherhood is not just about the joyful moments, it’s also about enduring hardship, navigating challenges, and continually showing up. This project is a tribute to the mothers who balance their own identities with the selflessness that comes with raising children. It celebrates the unspoken bond between mothers and why it’s so vital for them to support one another. Through the ups and downs, motherhood is made easier and richer when women come together, share their experiences, and build a strong sense of community.
Framed Mothers is more than an art project, it’s a testament to the power of women coming together to share their stories, lifting each other up, and embracing the collective strength that comes from community.
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A portrait experience honoring motherhood, legacy, and the stories we rarely get to tell.
Framed Mothers is a fine art portrait project created by award-winning photographer Tiffany Griffith to celebrate the depth, strength, beauty, and individuality of mothers.
This is more than a portrait session. It is an invitation to be seen, styled, photographed, and remembered exactly as you are in this season of motherhood.
Every mother carries a story. Some stories are soft. Some are complicated. Some are full of survival, sacrifice, reinvention, grief, joy, identity, and becoming. Framed Mothers exists to hold space for those stories through portraiture, written words, and community.
Your portrait and story will become part of a curated magazine and a gallery-style Gala celebration designed to honor mothers and the legacy they are creating.
What Is Framed Mothers?
Framed Mothers is an ongoing portrait and storytelling project that highlights the diverse journeys of mothers from different backgrounds, seasons, cultures, and lived experiences.
The project was originally inspired by Tiffany Griffith’s MFA thesis work, which explored motherhood from the mother’s perspective. It has since grown into a larger community-centered project focused on documenting mothers with care, artistry, and intention.
Rather than photographing motherhood only through the lens of children or family roles, Framed Mothers turns the focus back toward the mother herself.
Her identity. Her story. Her resilience. Her softness. Her legacy.
This Year’s Focus: Mothers in uniform
This edition of Framed Mothers is centered on Mothers in uniform.
This includes mothers who wake up everyday (or used to) and puts on a uniform.
Mothers in uniform carries a unique weight. It can include deployments, distance, reintegration, service, sacrifice, transition, identity shifts, and the quiet strength required to hold both family and duty.
Through this project, Tiffany is creating space for those stories to be honored with tenderness and power.
Participants may choose to incorporate meaningful elements into their session, medical devices used in their job, or other personal items connected to their story, to include wearing their uniform for a portrait.
The Gala
The Framed Mothers Gala is the culminating celebration of the project.
This event is designed to feel like an intimate gallery experience, community gathering, and legacy celebration all in one. Portraits from the project will be displayed, stories will be honored, and mothers will have the opportunity to see their image and experience reflected back in a powerful way.
This is the night where the work becomes more than a photograph.
It becomes a room full of stories. A room full of mothers. A room full of proof that motherhood deserves to be documented with reverence.
Each participating mother will receive one Gala ticket and may purchase additional tickets for family, friends, and loved ones.
The Magazine
The Framed Mothers magazine is a curated publication created to accompany the project.
Inside, each mother’s portrait and story will be featured as part of a larger collection documenting motherhood from multiple perspectives.
The magazine is designed to become a keepsake — something you can hold, revisit, share, and pass down.
Because your story deserves to live somewhere beautiful.
Who This Is For
Framed Mothers is for mothers who want to be seen beyond what they do for everyone else.
It is for the mother who has served. The mother who has sacrificed. The mother who is still becoming. The mother who rarely gets in the frame. The mother whose story has not been told in her own words. The mother who wants something meaningful to leave behind.
You do not need to feel confident in front of the camera. You do not need to know what to wear. You do not need to have the perfect words for your story yet.
You only need to show up.
The rest will be guided.
Why This Project Matters
Mothers are often photographed in relation to everyone else.
Holding the baby. Standing behind the child. Organizing the family. Supporting the moment. Making the memory happen.
Framed Mothers asks a different question:
What happens when the mother becomes the subject?
What happens when her story is centered? What happens when her portrait is framed with the same reverence often reserved for legacy, leadership, and art?
This project exists because mothers deserve to be documented as whole people — not just as caretakers, but as women with histories, dreams, identities, griefs, victories, and voices.
Session Investment
Your Framed Mothers session includes the full portrait experience, professional hair and makeup, styling support, one digital image, a framed print, a magazine copy, and one Gala ticket.
Limited spots are available for this year’s project.
Pricing to be a part of this project is $699. Additional images may be purchased for an additional cost.
"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do."
— Marilyn Monroe