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10th Feb 2017

Birth photography of the year awards: The winners are in (and we’re in bits)

Sive O'Brien

The annual competition by IAPBP celebrates the absolute beauty of birth and the skill of birth photographers around the globe.

The winners of the competition are in and they are phenomenal. We dare you not to relate to some of these, they really pull at the heart strings.

Just wow, kedocumentary.com

Raw emotion from thebirthphotographer.ca

 A rarely-seen birdseye view from katiemathis.com
A beautiful waterbirth, birthunscripted.com

A rare glimpse from this angle, from elizabethfarnsworthphotography.com

Which one is your favourite? Tell us in the comments below.

Topics:

baby photography,birth,birth photography,labour

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