Moet Nicole Moutrie from Denver, Colorado, has been capturing the beauty and emotion of childbirth in her photographs for the past eight years. Her collection portrays the exhilaration, happiness, love, and weariness that mothers experience when holding their newborns for the first time.
Each photo is meaningful and captures a range of emotions: anticipation, relief, раιn, love, wonder, excitement, joy, and determination. For Moet, seeing her nephew enter the world was a transformative experience that inspired her to pursue birth photography. She finds childbirth to be a spiritual, emotional, and physical transformation.
Moet describes childbirth as transformative, empowering, and beautiful, and sees mothers during childbirth as goddesses connected to a greater power. She believes that even if a woman’s birth experience does not go as planned, it can still result in a joyful outcome.
Moet’s arresting images capture the wide range of emotions felt during childbirth, from joy to раιn, and ultimately, love. She believes that hospital births are also beautiful and can result in some of her most emotional shots, particularly crowning shots.
In the end, capturing the moment of birth is a wonderful gift that allows parents to treasure those memories for a lifetime.
