Capturing that special moment when a child enters the world.
The annual IAPBP competition celebrates the beauty of birth and the skill of birth photographers around the globe in five categories: labour, delivery, postpartum, birth details and fresh 48. They’re the birth images that leave you breathless, speechless, and in complete awe. From the sheer joy and exhaustion at the climax of birth to the unguarded moments when it all seems too hard. Every moment, every emotion is captured.
Here are the winners of the 2021 International Association of Professional Birth Photographers Image Competition.
First Place Winner: Daddy’s Girls
via Ashley Marston – Ashley Marston Photography
Best in Birth Details: The Origin of Life
via Charlene Foertser – Charlene Foerster Fotografie
Best in Fresh 48: Nourish
via Jami Edgar – Touch of Hart Photography
Best in Delivery: The Greatest Love in the World
via Anne Lucy Silva Barbosa – Anne Lucy Fotografia
Best in Labour: Reach Down. He’s Almost Here
via Dana Jacobs – Dana Jacobs Photography
Best in Postpartum: My Body, My Birth
via Hanna Hill – Hanna Hill Photography
Honourable Mentions
The Strength Within You Is Greater Than Any Storm
via Lisa Phillips – Lisa Phillips Photography
The Miracle of Life In Your Hands
via Nora Dalmasso – Nora Dalmasso Fotografia
You And You And Me
via Brittany Knapik – The Birth Story Collective
A Dose of Mother Nature
via Jessica Henderson – Jessica Henderson Photography
Home Birth in a Pandemic
via Ashley Marston – Ashley Marston Photography
A Mother’s Guidance
via Cat Fancote – Capturing Birth
Birthing Queen
via Kate Kennedy – Kate Kennedy Birth Photography
Examining Every Detail
via Lisa Phillips – Lisa Phillips Photography
When Time Stands Still
via Ashley Marston – Ashley Marston Photography
Welcome Little Women
via Kate Kennedy – Kate Kennedy Birth Photography
Of All Our Travels, This Journey Will Be Our Greatest
via Dana Jacobs – Dana Jacobs Photography
Reborn
via Rianna Cross – Birthspoke
Underwater
via Dania Watson – Lauren and Douglas
This Moment 2020
via Kandyce Wagar – Songbird and Oak Photography
Erupting into Being
via Laura Brink – Rewild Her
Silent Night
via Rianna Cross – Birthspoke
Babies coming
via Laura Brink at Rewild Her
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