my deepest gratitude, Surya and Nick, for trusting me to be there with you, to bear witness and document one of the most vulnerable and intimate moments of your life. It was truly a powerful and profound experience that will remain with me for the rest of my days. the following images resulted from hours spent in the loving embrace of this nourishing home, in absolute awe of the wonder and pain and beauty of human existence.
my utmost reverence and admiration for the wise and intuitive women, the midwives, guardians of the ritual of homebirth, jaime shapiro and kelly murphy, who guided this new life into the world: womenborn // the root sf
