Modern Motherhood Photo Documentary Class (3:36) from Maria Averion on Vimeo.

This was my Final Project for a photo documentary class at Ohio University. It was on what I dubbed "Supermoms," which are mothers of more than two children. I wish I had one more mom, but even these two were difficult to edit down to a 2-4 minute project. I shot all the photos, which is pretty good considering this was only my second photojournalism class and I had not picked up a camera since I was an undergrad. I learned a lot from this class because I began to see my photography and what it lacked more clearly. I improved immensely from this project. Even now, looking back, I know some of these pics were kind of rough, but it's all a learning process. I took all the photos and interviewed and recorded the audio on a Marantz. I cobbled the movie together using Final Cut Pro, LiveType and ProTools.