Photographers from the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers have taken some incredible images.
What do Caesarean births really look like? These stunning images from members of the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers (IAPBP) show just that.
The association has over 1,400 members in 37 different countries, and was founded in 2010 by Lyndsay Stradtner of Life in Motion Photography, who lives in Texas with her husband and four children. After the family lost many of their belongings in Hurricane Katrina, Stradtner started taking photographs using a DSLR camera to make sure their precious memories were captured. She started photographing births in 2007, and founded the IAPBP to make it easier for clients and photographers to connect. In a blog post on the IAPBP website, Stradtner explained how birth photography is often misunderstood. Pushing back against commonly-held ideas that birth photography is “gross,” “yucky,” or “distasteful,” she explained why some families choose to hire a birth photographer, and what the end result is all about.