The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers has revealed the contest’s 2017 winners, and the images they selected highlight both the joy and challenges moms experience during childbirth.
These fresh photographs will make you even more astounded than we did with the contest from last year. Every single one of them narrates a tale of suffering, tenacity, and, in the end, relief. They capture the early stages of a baby’s existence as well as the beginnings of a family’s bond.
Reader caution is suggested since many of the following images are strong and explicit. But they are all strong in their own particular ways.
More info: IAPBB
1. I’ve Been Waiting for You
2. Best In Category: Birth Details, Pieces of Me
3. Best In Category: Postpartum, Straight from Heaven
4. That First Gaze
5. Skin To Skin Today. Heart To Heart Always
6. Falling In Love All Over Again
7. Are You My Mama?
8. Best In Category: Delivery, With A Splash
9. Freshly Squeezed
10. First Place Winner. Road To Deliverance
11. Honorable Mentions. Catching Her Baby, Born Via Surrogacy
12. Absorb
13. The End: A New Beginning
14. The First Look
15. Honorable Mentions. Approaching Life
16. Honorable Mentions. Surprise
17. Honorable Mentions. Joyful Finale
18. Honorable Mentions. As She Rose from The Depths
19. Honorable Mentions. Hello Before Goodbye
20. A Beautiful Transition
21. Honorable Mentions. Gentle Caesarean Birth
22. The Softest Landing Pad
23. Becoming Grandmothers
24. Honorable Mentions. Before The First Breath
25. Mother’s Pure Bliss
26. Euphoric First Embrace Together
27. Honorable Mentions. Honoring The Temple
28. Birth In Colour
29. Ascension
30. Breathe
31. Bathed In the Morning Light She Welcomes New Life
32. Honorable Mentions. Birth Of A Mother
33. Honorable Mentions. 17 Years Of Waiting: A Non-fertility Miracle
34. Honorable Mentions. She Holds Her Daughter’s Fingers In Awe And Wonder
35. Superman Style Arrival
36. Raw Power
37. Looking Inside
38. The Go-to Position For Slow Labor
39. Honorable Mentions. Rapture
40. Honorable Mentions. Future Big Sister
41. First Wrinkles
42. Intertwined
43. Holding On To Strength
44. This Is Life
45. Moment To Collect
46. Christmas Eve Head Shot
47. Motherland…
48. Euphoria, Triumph
49. Honorable Mentions. She Believed She Could
50. United We Are Strong
51. Within The Waves
52. Peaceful Entry
53. Best In Category: Labor, Determination
54. Honorable Mentions. Entangled In The Cord That Ties Us
55. Hear Me Roar
56. Baby’s First Defense
57. Honorable Mentions. Droplets Of Mercy
58. The World Ahead
59. Riding The Wave
