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Motoyuki Daifu, "Lovesody"

Tokyo-based artist Motoyuki Daifu debuts his first solo show at Lombard Freid Projects with "Lovesody," a portmanteau of love and rhapsody. This series of photographs chronicles the artist's affair with a young mother of two children, showcasing a series of portraits filled with energy, color, and honesty about the rewards and hardships that come with raising children. As Daifu writes:

I met her when she was only twenty years old. She already had a two-year-old boy and was pregnant again. I fell in love with her at first sight. A girl - and a mother. She had two characters in herself. I had never met a girl like her- a girl full of motherly love. This is our six month lovesody.

Through March 3 at Lombard Freid Projects, 518 W 19th St. For more information, go HERE. [Photo via]