09/08/2021
For this we are showcasing Lorraine Pryce. Who is a West Yorkshire based doula, photographer, doula mentor and birth activist. Her project ‘do you see me now’ started out as a way to celebrate black and brown women and birthing people. This project raises awareness and confronts the statistics that these women and birthing people are 3 times more likely to die in the prenatal period. Lorraine uses photography to embrace the power of birth and the realities of real life questioning “what if the world saw all of us not just our skin? what would the narrative be?”
In these images Lorraine captures moments of transformation and little moments that soon become memories, her raw photos are real and unscripted with the aim not to disturb but to memorialise. Her own journey taught her how important it is to be heard, informed, and empowered.
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