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Milk Teeth (Tall Poppy Press, 2025) is Amy Woodward’s first monograph, exploring the tangle of love and overwhelm that comes with raising small children. When her second child was born, she found herself caught between deep joy and unexpected contradictions—the feeling that something had slipped away, even as something new began to take shape.

Woodward’s images lean into the tactile world of childhood—bug bites, tears, half-eaten fruit—they dwell in the tension and tenderness that exists within the raising of children. The sticky, the tender, the mess that lingers. Milk Teeth began with her eldest son, the expansion and confusion she felt after her second child was born; the sometimes unceremonious transition from mother of one to mother of more. As time went on, the work became something broader—an instinctive response to the everyday rhythms of parenting, the chaotic beauty, the sensory weight of it all.

As she learned more about her own and her eldest son’s neurodivergence, these moments took on new meaning, revealing patterns in the way they both experience the tactile details of life.

Amy Woodward is a photographic artist currently living and working on Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi Country (Sunshine Coast) Australia.

Intrigued by the fragile and fleeting nature of everyday life and the human experience, Amy approaches her practice with sensitivity and reverence for all stages of life but often pays particular attention to the passage of motherhood.

Amy’s own turbulent journey into matrescence drives her desire to honestly portray the chaos and intensity of early parenthood and family life. Themes relating to neurodivergence weave into her personal work; a lived reality for her and her first son, and one that presents its own set of complexities still being explored.

Born in country Victoria on Pangerang Country, she was drawn to the medium of photography from an early age as a way to catalogue the constant changes around her. Moving houses, schools and states was a regular occurrence during her childhood. Amy completed a Bachelor of Arts (Photography) at RMIT in 2016.