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CAPTURING THE ESSENCE, BEAUTY AND POWER OF HOMEBIRTH
The photographs on the Homebirth NSW website were generously donated by the photographers and families depicted throughout our website and below. We are so grateful to the powerful women for the donation of these precious, private photographs, and the memories that they hold. We are also incredibly indebted by the generous donation of these images by the below listed photographers. These images are powerful, invoke such huge emotion and tell a story that would not be possible without their inclusion, and this has a tremendous impact on the people browsing our website. By sharing these photos and the stories contained within, women can visualise what homebirth can look like and can witness the beauty and rawness that comes with it. These images help to normalise homebirth, showing that it can happen in a myriad of different ways, and that in all instances, there is such power and beauty to be experienced. Thank you for making these images accessible to all who browse these pages - we are so honoured and grateful.
jERUSHA SUTTON
Jerusha is a Sydney-based birth and postnatal doula and birth and family photographer and is also an actor! Relationships are her passion. Jerusha supports, and documents, relationships.
From Jerusha: "The relationship between a mother and her child, a pregnant woman and her partner, a toddler and their new baby sibling and everything in between. I became a doula in 2006. Childbirth was something I had always been drawn to-I grew up surrounded by healthy attitudes towards birth, so I entered the birthing space with an open heart. From the first birth I attended, I have always picked up a camera to capture the transition from woman into mother, and a babe on its journey earth-side, such is my fascination and awe of this sacred event. The emotion, the strength, the vulnerability, the purity. Thus, to support, and document. To hold up a mirror to you and show you how strong you are, how delicious your family is, how the fleeting moments are as magical as the big ones."
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From Jerusha: "The relationship between a mother and her child, a pregnant woman and her partner, a toddler and their new baby sibling and everything in between. I became a doula in 2006. Childbirth was something I had always been drawn to-I grew up surrounded by healthy attitudes towards birth, so I entered the birthing space with an open heart. From the first birth I attended, I have always picked up a camera to capture the transition from woman into mother, and a babe on its journey earth-side, such is my fascination and awe of this sacred event. The emotion, the strength, the vulnerability, the purity. Thus, to support, and document. To hold up a mirror to you and show you how strong you are, how delicious your family is, how the fleeting moments are as magical as the big ones."
Get in touch with Jerusha
Virginia Maddock
Virginia is a Herbalist, Doula and Birth Photographer who finds immense joy in supporting women and families through the perinatal period - pregnancy, birth and early parenting.
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Book Virginia for Pregnancy or Birth photography
Visit Virginia's website
Book Virginia for Pregnancy or Birth photography
TARA MAHONEY
I am a photographer who loves natural light and finding the magic in the everyday. I am real and honest and don’t expect perfection. I want to be deserving enough to be invited to document connection and vulnerability in all its forms. I want to see how people live and love. I want to witness the rawness and power of the birthing woman. I want to see the flash of connection between parent and child, between lovers, between families.
I love working with women who are fearless and vulnerable. Who love their families hard…in a way that feels both magical and completely real. Women who value art and the raw unconventional beauty that is motherhood.
I believe that life is beautiful just as it is, that women are beautiful just as they are. Not at some point in time in the distant future when things are “just so” but now, right now.
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I love working with women who are fearless and vulnerable. Who love their families hard…in a way that feels both magical and completely real. Women who value art and the raw unconventional beauty that is motherhood.
I believe that life is beautiful just as it is, that women are beautiful just as they are. Not at some point in time in the distant future when things are “just so” but now, right now.
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Natural Focus photography
Natural Focus Birth Photography is run by the incredible Beth Lindsay, who provides compassionate, supportive, family centred birth photography. Beth is passionate about providing quality documentation of important moments, and does so with such kindness in the birth space. Beth works in the Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains, Nepean and Western Suburbs of Sydney.
Get in touch with Beth
Get in touch with Beth
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Anna todd
Anna is a Sydney-based birth photographer based on the Northern Beaches. She specialises in pregnancy, birth, baby and family photography using natural, on location light.
From Anna: "My love and devotion to my own family combined with my passion for capturing natural and emotive images that tell a story filled with all those fleeting, everyday moments, is where I draw my creative inspiration."
From Anna: "My love and devotion to my own family combined with my passion for capturing natural and emotive images that tell a story filled with all those fleeting, everyday moments, is where I draw my creative inspiration."
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Echo Life Photography
Hi I'm Kendyl Christian, the one behind the lens at Echo Life Photography. I am a lifestyle photographer based in the Sutherland Shire. I specialise in birth photography and would be so honoured to capture your birth story. From the very first birth I was invited to witness I knew that the birth space was exactly where I wanted to be and have continued to be in awe of the power of a birthing person and the love that surrounds such a special time in life.
The birth of your child is such a pivotal moment in life and as a mother you always try to remember your birth story. You want to tell your children and let them know just how much they were wanted, how much they are loved and how much the day they joined you in this world was and always is the best day of your life. But a whirlwind of hormones and emotions often cloud your ability to recall, its almost designed that way. You find yourself grabbing at memories trying to piece it together, trying to describe how hard you worked to bring them earth side or the look on their dads face when they entered the world, emotions you have never seen before, never felt before, never experienced before.
I can capture that all for you, I can take those moments and turn them into tangible memories. I can freeze moments that make you feel those emotions again, as if you were looking into their eyes again for the first time, pictures that let you go back and reflect they will be something that you can always hold dear, they will be some of your most prized possessions. You don't want to lose those fleeting moments, you don't want to miss a thing.
The birth of your child is such a pivotal moment in life and as a mother you always try to remember your birth story. You want to tell your children and let them know just how much they were wanted, how much they are loved and how much the day they joined you in this world was and always is the best day of your life. But a whirlwind of hormones and emotions often cloud your ability to recall, its almost designed that way. You find yourself grabbing at memories trying to piece it together, trying to describe how hard you worked to bring them earth side or the look on their dads face when they entered the world, emotions you have never seen before, never felt before, never experienced before.
I can capture that all for you, I can take those moments and turn them into tangible memories. I can freeze moments that make you feel those emotions again, as if you were looking into their eyes again for the first time, pictures that let you go back and reflect they will be something that you can always hold dear, they will be some of your most prized possessions. You don't want to lose those fleeting moments, you don't want to miss a thing.
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Kate Randall
Hi, I am Kate,
Multi International Award Winning Blue Mountains/Sydney Birth Photographer.You only need to ask a mother her birth story to realise just how powerful a memory can be.
Layers upon layers of emotions, experiences and often expectations imprint themselves on a story we’ve often got our eyes closed for, sometimes oblivious to the magic unfolding around us.
If being witness to other women’s births has been healing for my own birth story, I can say undeniably that being witness to your own holds exponential power.
To relive the minutes that made you a family, to piece together the story that you were too present in your body to bear witness to; this is the power of documenting your birth journey.
Unrepeatable moments captured as keepsakes that carry you and your story of becoming, once you cradle new life in your arms.
My Birth Collection is a truly intimate and in person experience, from our very first conversation in your home to the tears I get to witness as you first watch your birth gallery.
Whether you are birthing at home or in hospital, I’m there not only as your photographer but as a supportive member of your team, capturing your story as well as helping you in any way I can to stay grounded as you live it.
Multi International Award Winning Blue Mountains/Sydney Birth Photographer.You only need to ask a mother her birth story to realise just how powerful a memory can be.
Layers upon layers of emotions, experiences and often expectations imprint themselves on a story we’ve often got our eyes closed for, sometimes oblivious to the magic unfolding around us.
If being witness to other women’s births has been healing for my own birth story, I can say undeniably that being witness to your own holds exponential power.
To relive the minutes that made you a family, to piece together the story that you were too present in your body to bear witness to; this is the power of documenting your birth journey.
Unrepeatable moments captured as keepsakes that carry you and your story of becoming, once you cradle new life in your arms.
My Birth Collection is a truly intimate and in person experience, from our very first conversation in your home to the tears I get to witness as you first watch your birth gallery.
Whether you are birthing at home or in hospital, I’m there not only as your photographer but as a supportive member of your team, capturing your story as well as helping you in any way I can to stay grounded as you live it.
