The Guardian recently featured a photo essay by Alice Proujansky (BFA, 2002) and writer Alissa Quart taking a close look at a 24-hour daycare center in New Rochelle, NY and what it represents.
Ms. Quart wrote: I was also struck by what Dee’s and other 24-7 daycare facilities represented. They serve an ever-expanding number of children whose parents work non-standard and unpredictable hours. The parents might be working two service or retail jobs or they may be night nurses. According to the National Women’s Law Center, 9% of daycare center care is now provided during evenings or weekends.
The written essay is accompanied by striking black-and-white photos by Proujansky, who has described herself as "a working mother photographing mothers working." The photographs were also included in the 2017 exhibition Re-Imagining A Safe Space at the Nathan Cummings Foundation and NYU Tisch.