Hidden Mothers takes its title and conceptual frame from Victorian-era photography, in which mothers were concealed under draped fabric so that their children could be photographed. Ruth O'Leary turns that practice of maternal erasure into a sustained critique of idealised maternal imagery in art history. Shot in photo-booths around Melbourne, the series appropriates the Victorian veil and transforms it with painted fabric that makes the maternal body hypervisible instead of hidden: her torso becomes a surface inscribed with witches, washing machines, ravens and clocks, the domestic objects and mythic figures through which motherhood is culturally written. Together these symbols form a counter-iconography of embodied labour, corporeal presence and the dialectic of creation and erasure. The zine is number ten in CCP.PE.ZINE, the collaboration between the Centre for Contemporary Photography and Perimeter Editions that gives emerging photographic artists a platform in an accessible zine format. The cover is a cream-toned photograph of a draped, ghostly torso with the title in small red type.