{"id":144611,"date":"2022-09-26T19:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T23:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/?p=144611"},"modified":"2025-01-10T23:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T04:37:36","slug":"sanja-marusic-sasha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/sanja-marusic-sasha\/","title":{"rendered":"“Sanja & Sasha”\u2014The Latest Motherhood Portraits By Sanja Maru\u0161i\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Sanja Maru\u0161i\u0107<\/a> gets deeper into motherhood, her portraits on the topic are evolving right alongside her. You might recall the Dutch-Croatian artist’s stunning color-blocked photos documenting her pregnancy, newborn years<\/a>, and the first year<\/a> of her son’s life. Now, 2+ years into motherhood, she’s sharing her latest crop of photos, dubbed Sanja & Sasha. “My son is more and more a person who also does poses in the photos instead of just a lying baby,” she says of her most recent shoots. “So the progress and the outcome has become different because of that.”<\/p>\n

As for how motherhood has continued to change her as an artist, she says: “I have less fears, I feel more free, proud. The birth of my son was quite a traumatic experience and I very much felt like I almost died and got to live again, that’s why I was more eager than normal to create. To create is to live. This was more in the beginning,” she explains. “It becomes a bit harder to photograph as he gets older because he has his own thoughts and desires now and of course doesn’t want to stand still. But together we make a game of it, do crazy poses, photograph his monkey toy. We laugh. The last time we did it he didn’t want to stop in the end!”<\/p>\n

It’s this very real push-and-pull relationship that she hopes to convey in her portraits. “I like to show the very special bond between mother and child, to stand still about that. I think it’s one of the most beautiful things to experience and it’s not only about my experience. I find it very touching if I see other moms and children having an intimate moment with each other. Like laughing to each other, giving a hug, or hiding behind mom’s legs. I find it very interesting and beautiful to photograph it, to have a time capsule,” she says. “To see my son physically growing in my photos, and me getting older. Together we change, but hopefully we’ll always have the bond we have now.”<\/p>\n

See Sanja Maru\u0161i\u0107’s latest, Sanja & Sasha, in the slideshow below.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Sanja Maru\u0161i\u0107 gets deeper into motherhood, her portraits on the topic are evolving right alongside her. You might recall the Dutch-Croatian artist’s stunning color-blocked photos documenting her pregnancy, newborn years, and the first year of her son’s life. Now, 2+ years into motherhood, she’s sharing her latest crop of photos, dubbed Sanja & Sasha.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[146,7,138,75],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166772,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144611\/revisions\/166772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}