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Category Archives: maternity

Taking Maternity Photos For A New Big Sister

I have photographed this mom for her first pregnancy and continued with her new born baby. We had a lot of fun since I held back some of the film of her near delivery to photograph her new baby with the same film. Please check out the post titled: Dreaming. I have continued to work [...]

Photographs Mean Love

Some more new prints. I think you will see the love and connection.

Portraits in Palladium

I have a lot of fun printing with Palladium. The post before this one, done with palladium, is a set of photographs printed together to tell a story. Here are single palladium photographs. The first photographs are from medium format negatives and one is from a 4X5″ negative. Remember that palladium printing is a contact [...]

A Tale of Birth

I am an alumna of the celebrated art school, The Skowhegan School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture. Recently one of my art pieces called “Birth Tale” appeared in a slide show of alumni work at a benefit dinner for Skowhegan. This piece my be selected for the published Newsletter. “With life in motion, the amazing [...]

What Is Your Photographic Story?

Actually, this was one of the few days this Spring that it did not rain. I will let this mom speak. “As a new mom I had never had professional pictures taken of my son. Lo and behold the day we decide to shoot he is the crankiest he has ever been. So you do [...]

Choices In Childbirth: A Concert Celebrates Healthy Birth

On Monday night, May 9th, the audience rocked with the wonderful performances of stars Storm Large, Ann Moller, Kate Northup, Elizabeth Stanley, Alysha Umphress, Christopher Hanke and Rebecca Jones. This concert benefited Choices In Childbirth. Awards for their outstanding contributions for women’s health were presented to Dr. Christiane Northrup and to Christy Turlington Burns. The [...]

Pin Up: Who’s In Charge?

In Lorna Simpson’s show titled “Gathered” at The Brooklyn Museum (I wrote earlier about this show on April 4th) are many 8X8″ photographs of two African American women posing as pin ups. What is striking is that the young woman posed for these photos in 1957. This was the time that the Civil Rights movement [...]

Women & Men Together

Not only is a fund raiser for Choices In Childbirth coming up on May 9th in Manhattan but just this past Saturday, April 9th, a panel discussion titled “Men and Feminism” took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. What brings these two events together is that both [...]

Toward Healthy Birth

I am thrilled that artwork I have created to celebrate childbirth will be on display at The Concert for a Healthy Birth hosted by Ricky Lake on May 9th in NYC. This event benefits the work of Choices In Childbirth, the leader in maternity care consumer education, advocacy and outreach. Honored on May 9th will [...]

Beyond Art

On Sunday I walked over to The Brooklyn Museum both to see exhibits and to attend a panel: Gender and Genocide: Sexual Violence during the Holocaust and Other Genocides, moderated by Gloria Steinem. In our present time, talk centered on conflict in the Congo where the coltan for our cell phones and other devices is [...]