OK I know this might sound completely weird and possibly slightly creepy, but I am fascinated by birth photography. Hear me out. We live in a world of manufactured emotion. We take dozens of selfies until we get our smile just right. We angle our bodies to look thinner. We drive out to the middle of nowhere to take pictures walking through fields that no normal person would otherwise walk through. We work so hard to portray emotions we want others to see and associate with us online.
But you rarely see that in birth photography. It's not posed. It truly achieves one of the purposes of photography - to capture reality in a freezeframe. These photos just happen to capture that reality during one of life's most sacred events: birth.
Each photo is meaningful and displays so many different emotions. Anticipation, relief, pain, love, wonder, excitement, joy, determination - it's all there. Check these out, and you'll see what I mean:
