Milk Report Publication 

2019 - present    SELF-INITIATED    Edition: 720
Milk Report explores the politics and economics of care through the lens of breastfeeding. Originally a print piece and latterly a live performance and film, Milk Report records the hours and minutes Young spent breastfeeding during the first six months after giving birth. This totalled 720 hours and 7 minutes. The length of every feed is documented and accompanied by a narrative text. Seeking full renumeration for the labour-intensive work undertaken, an edition of 720 copies of the Milk Report publication have been printed to be sold for £8.21 each (the 2019 National Living Wage). This will equate to a wage of £5916.95 once all of the Milk Reports have been sold. 

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Copies of Milk Report have been acquired by the Birth Rites Collection, the Wellcome Trust and Hayward Gallery. It has been featured in the books Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding by Joanna Wolfarth, Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood by Hettie Judah and Transnational Visual Activism for Womens Reproductive Rights edited by Basia Swilinska; and we talk about it on BBC Radio 4’s Child podcast.


Image credit: Conway & Young, Spike Island, Bristol, England, 2019 © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos
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