An Irish photographer has created a beautiful photo series in an effort to help mums overcome their anxieties about breastfeeding in public. Sophia Harding, who is based in Bundoran, is a documentary photographer with a solid reputation for her commercial work with big brands such as RTE and Electric Picnic, but in her own time […]
9 years ago
When Alina Gabrel-Kamińska became a mother, a funny thing happened. The man who, as she had grown up, she had seen as a somewhat subpar father suddenly grew up himself… and became the perfect grandfather to her daughters Lenka and Thyme. “Words are not my medium so the story is told with photographs, each day […]
10 years ago
As a parent, there are few moments where you feel so utterly grateful and lucky as when you glance at your sleeping children, all safe and snug and warm in their beds. Imagine, then, what it must feel like to see your child sleeping in an environment so very different than the above? When you […]
10 years ago
A photographer whose brilliant first photo series documented new mothers and their day-old babies has released a second collection, this time featuring women who gave birth in the world’s poorest country. Jenny Lewis started the One Day Young project, a seven-year effort capturing 40 London mums, to show women currently pregnant that giving birth is absolutely nothing […]
10 years ago
As many as one in 25 women in state prisons and one in 33 federal prisons are pregnant when admitted to prison in the US, according to the Sentencing Project. The majority of women entering prison pregnant, including those with relatively short prison sentences and charged with nonviolent crimes, are separated from their babies after […]
11 years ago
Stockholm-based photographer, Moa Karlberg has captured two very different realities of an experience shared by women all over the world. Her stunning photo series, Hundred Times the Difference, portrays the beauty and pain of labour, as well as the various environments in which women give birth. “During their lifetime, the majority of the world’s women give […]
11 years ago