Welcome, baby Malcolm!
Mom Jozi’s friends arranged for me to be present at this most amazing event. Jozi is also a photographer in Vancouver so I am especially honoured to provide the photos of her second son’s birth. We started on Friday night a few hours after the induction in St. Paul’s Hospital’s maternity ward. Jozi was surrounded by family and friends the entire time.
I returned the next day when the action picked up…
Mira’s mum met me while I was toting my gear through the St. Paul’s maternity ward after doing a session with another family. I was happy to come back just a few days later and meet this little bundle!
I was delighted to be called in to St. Paul’s Maternity in Vancouver to see little baby Orest today. His mum is the doctor who delivered my son and we did her new baby’s portraits in the exact same room. It was really lovely to revisit that room where my wife and I spent over a week and now meet with this brand new family, still tired from the birth, but so happy to be together.
Here is Orest, just two days old, skin-to-skin with dad…
We checked out of the hospital and went over to Nelson Park for a few images in the grass.
And here is Orest with mum.
I was thrilled yesterday to drop off the final 12 prints from the Skin-to-Skin photography project made for St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. The images were done with the cooperation of some fantastic participating families over the course of a few weeks where I was “on call” to come to the hospital as soon as the babies were born. I was lucky enough to meet these new bundles very soon after they met the world.
The photographs are meant to encourage new moms and dads to focus on “skin-to-skin” contact and natural breastfeeding with their newborn. We made sure to include dads in this as their role is very important in both aspects; even more so when the woman undergoes a C-section as it is the dad who gets to do the first skin-to-skin while the mom recovers.
The 20 x 30 Lightjet C-prints, mounted on Dibond, will be on display permanently in the hospital’s Labour & Delivery ward.
My series of in-hospital birth photography continued last week with some very lovely families. I’m called to come in to the maternity ward’s delivery and recovery rooms soon after the babies arrive and the parents are just getting to know their new arrivals.
I have a special place for the skin-to-skin photos with dads:
And we had an amazing delivery of twins! They were barely four hours old when I got to make these photos:
Here are my other favourites from three more of these special events:
Charlie (or “CoCo” as her dad called her) was born yesterday at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. I was honored that I got to meet her and her family a few hours after her grand entrance. She made a wonderful subject.
Welcome to the blog of Shot In Vancouver Photography; my name is Alex Firmani. I am a birth photographer and a wedding photographer and I cover both in a classically-trained photojournalistic style.
