The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers (IAPBP) has announced the 2022 Birth Photography Image Competition winners. There have been hundreds of contributions from photographers all across the world. These are really raw and personal images of delivery.
The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers (IAPBP) was founded to provide pregnant parents with an online database of professional birth photographers and videographers in their region.
“We are immensely pleased with the entries of this year’s competition because, despite all we have faced in our community in recent years, this event demonstrates the resilience birth photographers have to overcome unanticipated circumstances,” they said in a news statement. We are also excited to add Hardship & Loss, a new, profound, and powerful subcategory. We want to celebrate the 1 in 4 birthing people who endure miscarriage and/or loss, and including photographs of these experiences in our birth photography celebration is one way we may do so. We are honored to offer you a magnificent collection of work from 2021 that conveys life’s most meaningful moments.”
#1 First Prize A Touch Of Love by Bárbara Aviz was the winner.
#2 Particulars of Birth The Tiniest Feet by Dania Watson was the winner.
#3 Delivery The First Look by Ebony Allen-Ankins was the winner.
#4 Sara Avila is a labor winner who has accepted a new plan.
#5 Postpartum Jessica Miles’s Twins First Latch was the winner.
#6 She Roars by Lindsey Bartell in black and white.
#7 Inge Berken’s Euforia in black and white.
#8 Sara Johnso’s Documentary – Dad Catches His Baby Girl
#9 Sara Johnson’s Labor: B&W – Ovarian Cancer Survivor – Hospital Transfer
#10 Jessica Innemee’s labor documentary, My Sacred Birth Cocoon.
#11 Rachel Utain-Evans’ Postpartum: B&W – Reunion
#12 Inge Berken’s documentary Postpartum: Love Until Infinity.
#13 Hayden Trace’s Postpartum: Fine Art – Swimming Interstellar
#14 Ecstacy by Jacinta Lagos is delivered.
#15 Dora Barens’s postpartum: A Touch of Love
#16 Susanne Krauss’s postpartum: A tranquil delivery in times of epidemic.
#17 Natalie Broders’ postpartum: exhale
#18 Ebony Allen-Postpartum: Ankins’s Into the Night
#19 Jessica Henderson’s Delivery: Daughters of a Midwife.
#20 Lyubov Chaykovskaya’s postpartum: life-giving nectar
#21 Lindsey Ellis’s Labor: Lean Into Me
#22 Ashley Marston’s Labor: Transition Tears
#23 Sadie Wild’s Labor: Ready for Devotion
#24 Sadie Wild’s Delivery: From the Womb to Our World
