A photographer’s tribute to her mother has inspired an interactive art exhibition on motherhood and memory.Imagining and Imaging Mums was initially Junourton photographer Sharon Greenaway’s way of remembering a mother only she knew, but it grew into something bigger.“I’m an only child and I’ve got a lot of items that belonged to my mother,” Mrs Greenaway says. “You go through all these letters and you think, ‘I wonder how she felt about reading those’... it’s all about remembering her.”With Castlemaine documentary photographer Christine Sayer, Imagining and Imaging Mums invited mothers to have their portraits taken in the Dudley House Gallery last Sunday. The portraits will be included in the exhibition itself.“I wanted people to be able to take something with them,” Mrs Greenaway says.Located close to the Bendigo Art Gallery’s The White Wedding Dress exhibition, the display includes a series of ethereal photos of bridal dresses and gloves that Mrs Greenaway created in her darkened lounge room at home, using a torch to ‘paint’ light onto the images during a long exposure.The result is homely and moving, including photographs of sewing kits, love letters and objects she associated with her childhood in the 1960s, including her mother’s custard trifle.Ms Sayer’s portraits of contemporary mothers, many from around Bendigo and Castlemaine, are of a documentary style but covers a similar emotional terrain, the photographer says.“I wanted to document their stories...they’re people from all walks of motherhood.”Imagining and Imaging Mums is at Dudley House until Sunday, August 14.