Hello, my dear clients. Today I want to share something and say thank you to all of you.
It was a day I came back after a sleepless night. I spent 20 hours in a hospital being not only a birth photographer. I was feeling emotionally open and vulnerable. I checked my email and saw that the results of the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers competition had been announced — a competition that means a lot to me. Just a few days before I was watching the entries and thinking: wow, those photographers are too good, and my photographs are something simple. So I forgot about it. But I was curious to see the results of the others.
I started scrolling through the winners… and suddenly, I saw my photograph.
At that moment, I started to cry. Because I was exhausted by sleepless night, hormones and my heart full of the feelings about all the women I photographed. I wanted to share this news with someone who could truly feel it with me. So I wrote to the woman in the photograph and sent her a printscreen..
I always deeply respect privacy and never publish images without consent. This birth took place in January 2026, and that same month I submitted the image to the competition. It was a very intimate photograph, and I hesitated for a long time before sending it. But she said yes.
Cindy celebrated this moment with me. She told me I deserved it. I was thinking that it’s her story and she deserves this win much more than me. We were very happy and agreed to celebrate it.
And I felt such deep gratitude to all the families who have invited me into their births. This feeling of “winning” did not bring pride in the usual sense. Instead, it felt like being part of something profoundly beautiful — something full of love, femininity, and creation.
It was March 20.
My birthday is in three days, and the spring equinox is very close.
And I felt a strong desire to write to all of you who have chosen me as your birth photographer.
Because you, more than anyone, understand how I approach this work — that I give myself to it fully, completely. This result is not only mine. It belongs to you too. My path has been shaped through your experiences, through the trust you gave me, through the stories you allowed me to witness.
With every birth, I have learned something technical — how to photograph in small rooms, in hospitals, in daylight and in complete darkness, how to work silently without interrupting the space.
But most importantly, I learned to see.
To see through the eyes of a father, anxious and present.
Through the eyes of a mother, moving through this experience with her whole body.
Through the eyes of siblings, who in a single moment stop being the youngest and become older.
Through the eyes of a doula, gently holding and caring.
Through the eyes of a midwife, listening with deep attention.
And also through my own eyes — the eyes of an artist, who finds meaning within movement, and transforms birth into something visual, something lasting.
Today, I want to share this result with you.
And to thank you — from my photographer’s heart.
