Brenda
 
Photographer Jamie Diamond’s series “Mother Love” captures the Reborner community lovingly holding their reborn dolls.

In “Mother Love,” I collaborated with an outsider art making community called the Reborners, a group of self-taught female artists who hand-make, collect and interact with hyper-realistic dolls. Working with the community allowed me to explore the grey area between reality and artifice where relationships are constructed with inanimate objects, between human and doll, artist and artwork, uncanny and real.

Jamie was so intrigued with the Reborner community that she decided to join their group herself in order to gain a better understanding. Jamie ended up creating her own hyper-realistic dolls and successfully “adopting” them out on eBay:

Nine Months of Reborning documents my introduction to the community and the making of my first nine dolls, as well as the working nursery I established in my studio and on eBay, called the Bitten Apple Nursery.

“Adopting” a reborn doll on eBay can cost you anywhere from $100 to $4000.

You can see more of the “Mother Love” series here. 

Ping
 

Troy
 

Kyla
 

Brenda’s nursery
 

Marilyn
 

Karen
 
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