More than documenting these intimate moments, the Australian-based photographer assists these mothers as a Doula (or ‘birthing coach’).
“People are bombarded with negative information that is almost always exaggerated or inaccurate,” the award-winning photographer told The Huffington Post.
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“Those resulting anxieties catapult them into a system that is banking on their fear or self-doubt. We’ve sterilized childbirth, taken the humanity out of it,” laments Angela.
” I want every expecting mama who finds these images, to think, ‘Oh, hold on. This isn’t the birth I usually see. Maybe I don’t need to be afraid. Maybe I can do things differently. Maybe there is a better way.'”
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“Birth, to me, is one of life’s truest ‘human’ experiences,” she shared. “To be able to capture those few moments where a baby can exist between two worlds, and where I can play a part in a room thick with some seriously powerful energy and love. It is literally a dream.”
Gallo is currently raising money via an Indiegogo campaign to help finance a six-month project where she would travel around the globe to photograph pregnancy and motherhood in various cultures.
She sees a shift happening in the way people view labor and birth around the world.
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“Perception changes dramatically from place to place, person to person,” she said. “People continue to believe that pregnancy and birth are terrifying or gross. I have to delete comments from my page on a daily basis. And yes, it gets frustrating. But in general the response is overwhelmingly positive. I certainly feel a huge paradigm shift in the making.”
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