[4] She graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography and moved to New York City.

Carucci's third monograph, Mother (2013), "documents ten years of New York City-based child rearing.

"[4] Beginning during the pregnancy of her twins and ending when they turn eight years old, she explores the complex realities of motherhood in images that show her joys and the pains, the beautiful and the ugly, and the love and dysfunctions.

Taking place at a time when her and her husband were working through her infidelity and mind-body induced physical pain and his marijuana usage, these photographs look straight into the darkness of post-arguments, as well as at their tender moments.

The mood was gentle, though, with plenty of high notes; the everyday ebb and flow of relationships were lovingly and lavishly documented, while the larger narratives played out in the background.