Caption: The Way
"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."
-The Buddah
© Lisa Gendron
Showing posts with label Birth photography Rhode Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birth photography Rhode Island. Show all posts
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Birth... a week in images (Day Four)
Day Four:
Caption: The Way
"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."
-The Buddah
Caption: The Way
"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."
-The Buddah
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Birth... a week in images (Day One)
Day One:
Two weeks ago today my amazing daughter Sela joined my family (in the outside world.) I have been looking at the many images I have taken of families at the births of their children, and contemplating the enormity of the experience- both on a personal, social, and cultural level. I find that the work I make for clients and the body of documentary work I am making on the sociology of birth both exist in a dual space- the vacuum of personal and often medical spaces in which they are shot, and in my camera, but also in a larger emotional and cultural spaces of society.
I see an emerging picture of the struggle to bring a new human life into the world, and also a slowly focusing sense of what it is that we value in birth.
Birth bares us. It strips away pretense, reveals our true nature. Passionate, fierce, vulnerable, afraid and brave. The gesture of birth is raw. Body fluids, skin, caresses, machines. We dance with the technology that guards life and pushes us to question the capability of the human body.
Breath is the goal...
Steadies the heart of the fetus... keeps the galloping of heart monitor steady, the mother at her center.
Fills the lungs, displaces the primordial ocean of the aminion world- makes us land mammals.
Caption: Breath
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
-Sylvia Plath
Two weeks ago today my amazing daughter Sela joined my family (in the outside world.) I have been looking at the many images I have taken of families at the births of their children, and contemplating the enormity of the experience- both on a personal, social, and cultural level. I find that the work I make for clients and the body of documentary work I am making on the sociology of birth both exist in a dual space- the vacuum of personal and often medical spaces in which they are shot, and in my camera, but also in a larger emotional and cultural spaces of society.
I see an emerging picture of the struggle to bring a new human life into the world, and also a slowly focusing sense of what it is that we value in birth.
Birth bares us. It strips away pretense, reveals our true nature. Passionate, fierce, vulnerable, afraid and brave. The gesture of birth is raw. Body fluids, skin, caresses, machines. We dance with the technology that guards life and pushes us to question the capability of the human body.
Breath is the goal...
Steadies the heart of the fetus... keeps the galloping of heart monitor steady, the mother at her center.
Fills the lungs, displaces the primordial ocean of the aminion world- makes us land mammals.
Caption: Breath
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
-Sylvia Plath
© Lisa Gendron
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Birth Photography RI
Agroterra birth has been working diligently to finish our website- a monumental task of sorts between mothering, attending births and working with Jen on the Home Birth Collective Project and the RI Birth Network. I have so enjoyed meeting and working with the amazing families and professionals in RI and MA this past year! If you have stumbled upon this blog and are interested in following it, please do so- I am hoping to share my journey as a doula and birth photographer with the community. In addition to the work that I do for individual clients, I am also making a body of anthropological/ fine art work about birth, American family culture, and maternal/ neonatal health. If you are interested in the project- stayed tuned as this blog outlines and acts as a journal of the body of work.
And please visit the site! www.agroterrabirth.com
And please visit the site! www.agroterrabirth.com
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