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Tired Of Staged Breastfeeding Photos, I Started Shooting It In All Its Beautiful Messiness
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Tired Of Staged Breastfeeding Photos, I Started Shooting It In All Its Beautiful Messiness

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I was tired of seeing unrealistic photographs of women breastfeeding, so I took a photo of myself breastfeeding my baby, posted it on Facebook, and asked if other women would like to be photographed in the same way. I was inundated with responses, and so the photo series began!

In the media, I feel there is a distinct lack of authenticity in images of motherhood. Most photos are highly stylized, airbrushed, and unrealistic; many are sheer fantasy on what it’s like being a mom. Whether it is the angelic mother in her clinical white perfection or some model on the front of a fashion magazine. I’m tired of images that fail to show breastfeeding for real women.

This project is about portraying breastfeeding in all its beautiful messiness. This is a fresh point of view about tired eyes and no makeup. This is about milk leaks and ratty hair. This is about giving in to all the demands of your 2-year-old while you try to feed your newborn. This is about dishes piled up in the kitchen and dirty laundry building in the corner. This is about puke on your shoulder and toys on the floor. This is about let down milk sprays in cafes and engorged breasts at the park.

These black and white photos are about empowering women. This is about the amazing thing that only we, the women humans of this earth, can do; sustain another human’s life with our own.

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In the media, I feel there is a distinct lack of authenticity in images of women breastfeeding

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Most photos are highly stylized, airbrushed and unrealistic; many are sheer fantasy

Kristie

Whether it is the angelic mother in her clinical white perfection or some model on the front of a fashion magazine

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Ellie

I’m tired of images that fail to show the realities of breastfeeding for most women

Amma

I portray breastfeeding in all its beautiful messiness

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Lena

This is about tired eyes and no makeup

Kim

This is about milk leaks and ratty hair

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Marta

This is about giving in to all the demands of your 2-year-old while you try to feed your newborn

Sofi

This is about dishes piled up in the kitchen and dirty laundry building in the corner

Lauren

This is about puke on your shoulder and toys on the floor

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Karly

This is about let down milk sprays in cafes and engorged breasts at the park

Jacqui

This is about empowering women

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Mariah

This is about the amazing thing that only we, the women humans of this earth, can do…

Kym

…sustain another humans life with our own

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Suzie Blake

Suzie Blake

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Mother. Artist. Feminist.

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Mother. Artist. Feminist.

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SofiaBellavista
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What dies it mean "the amazing thing that only we, the women humans of this earth, can do"?she must know that all mammals do just the same..

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KTTrondsen
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so true! Boy did I get a wake up call when I had my first son last year. All the images out there are SO fake, it's absolutely ridiculous. What is wrong with showing things naturally. Thank you for this.

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AndrewLehman
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...seriously "the thing only us woman HUMANS of earth can do" ......what?

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SofiaBellavista
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What dies it mean "the amazing thing that only we, the women humans of this earth, can do"?she must know that all mammals do just the same..

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KTTrondsen
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so true! Boy did I get a wake up call when I had my first son last year. All the images out there are SO fake, it's absolutely ridiculous. What is wrong with showing things naturally. Thank you for this.

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AndrewLehman
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...seriously "the thing only us woman HUMANS of earth can do" ......what?

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