Who: Klodjana Dervishi, @KLODID
Followers: 27,522
Dervishi is a San Francisco-based photographer, originally from Albania. She and her husband, who is from Italy, have lived in the U.S. for five years, and now have two kids, Roberto, 3 and Alice, almost 2. “I photograph my day to day and since I spend most of the time with my kids, I try to capture their nature — the fun things they do, those expressions that soon will change and be lost forever,” says Dervishi. “It’s like a visual diary of how they grow – it’s their hobbies, their likes and dislikes, their good and bad days, their adventures.”
Dervishi says she always had visions and expectations of what motherhood would be like, but she never expected the emotional and physical roller coaster. “I grow as a mother, I change every day. I learn things, I mature and I wonder what I was ever like before I had my children, because I barely remember,” she says. “Before my second child was born, I was worried whether I was going to love her as much as I loved my first. And then I learned that a mother’s heart can expand, almost as much as that second pregnancy belly carrying an almost eight pounder.”
As a teenager in Albania, Dervishi would roll her eyes when her mother worried about her and told her that she would ‘get it’ when she had kids of her own. “Well, she was right. I do get it now. I get why mothers worry. And why they tell their children, ‘I’ll love you more than you’ll ever know,” says Dervishi.
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