Milk Factory

Saint Lucy Books

Milk Factory documents the invisible labor of lactation in America, bringing viewers inside pumping rooms across radically different sites—prisons, banking firms, farm laborers' tents, schools, airports, and the U.S. Capitol. Corinne May Botz's photographs honor this unrecognized work while challenging romanticized narratives of motherhood and exposing contradictions in modern parenthood and public policy. Milk Factory transforms solitary lactation experiences into a collective political archive—making private labor visible and demanding structural change.

We used different shades of paper to classify content types—formal essays, first-person narratives, photographs, poetry, and film stills—creating an organizational system through materiality. The film stills section disrupts this rhythm with large typography and lightweight glossy paper, evoking magazine aesthetics and creating a meta-reference to the book.

Creative Direction: Caleb Cain Marcus | Publisher: Saint Lucy Books | Artist: Corinne May Botz | Text: Hettie Judah, Mathilde Cohen | Book Photos: Steven Paneccasio