Be part of 'This is Also Motherhood'

Use the form below to share your own image of pregnancy or early parenting for our upcoming campaign and photography exhibition with Carolyn Mendelsohn in November 2025.

The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) is an award-winning UK charity and network of over 160 organisations, parents, and clinicians. Together, we raise awareness of mental health conditions during and after pregnancy (the perinatal period) and campaign for all families to have access to high-quality, compassionate care.

Our new campaign, 'This is Also Motherhood' will launch with an exciting photography exhibition in November 2025. It is our hope that this project plays a part in perinatal mental health being as discussed and supported as any other part of motherhood.

The exhibition (of portraits by Photographer Carolyn Mendelsohn) will tell 10 real stories from mums who have experienced different mental health challenges. Alongside these portraits, in our exhibition and ongoing campaign, we’ll showcase candid photos from parents across the UK.

We’re not looking for perfection. We’re looking for real, unpolished moments from your pregnancy or parenting journey that mean something to you. It doesn’t have to be a joyful moment, it can be one of stress, exhaustion, clutter, or chaos… We want to reflect all the emotions and realities that come with being a hopeful, expecting or new parent, whether it’s your first child or your fifth.

Name

First Name

Last Name

Email

So that we can contact you about your image if needed.

Your Instagram handle

If you would like to be tagged in the event that the MMHA posts your image on the MMHA's Instagram account

Your TikTok handle

If you would like to be tagged in the event that the MMHA posts your image on the MMHA's TikTok account

Title of your photo

Feel free to get creative!

A short description of your photo

We'd love to hear about what this photo means to you.

Terms & Conditions

This is open to anyone over the age of 18 who lives in the United Kingdom. By submitting an image you agree that the MMHA has the rights to edit (minimal edits and only where necessary to enhance image quality and/or remove any potentially identifying information such as school uniforms, door numbers etc) and use your image and the image description you provided in this form as part of their 'This is Also Motherhood' photography exhibition and wider communications campaign, including but not limited to; any exhibition events, exhibition promotional materials (including exhibition books, posters, and exhibition website), in the MMHA’s online communications such as website, email, and social media. Please note, we are expecting a high number of submissions and unfortunately will not be able to reply to everyone. If your image is included in any of the above ways, we will let you know via the email address you provide with your submission. If your submission is used and you change your mind at a later date and wish to withdraw it from future use, please email info@maternalmentalhealthalliance.org to let us know. We will delete your image within 10 working days of acknowledging your email. The closing date for submissions is midday (12:00) GMT on Friday 17th October 2025. If you need to speak to the MMHA team, please email info@maternalmentalhealthalliance.org.

I agree

Problem with the form?

Send us an email at mmha@alsomotherhood.com.

Want to contact the MMHA?

Send us an email at info@maternalmentalhealthalliance.org.

The Maternal Mental Health Alliance

The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) is a UK charity and network of 160 organisations, dedicated to ensuring women, birthing people and families affected by perinatal mental health problems have access to high-quality, compassionate care.

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About Carolyn Mendelsohn

Carolyn is an award winning portrait photographer and the artist in residence for ‘Born in Bradford’, a world renowned longitudinal health research study funded by The Wellcome Trust.

In the process of creating work, whether film or photography, her work is crafted through a process of social research and collection of material. It follows a visual narrative and is rooted in the lives and story of people and place.

Carolyn is an Ambassador for Nikon Europe and the Royal Photographic Society. She is internationally recognised for her portraits, including her portrait series and book Being Inbetween published by Bluecoat Press, and is the founder of Through Our Lens - a workshop and mentoring programme that enables people to tell their stories through the medium of photography.

See Carolyn's work