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Huge Congratulations to Birth Photographer Ashley Marston of Ashley Marston Photography for placing First Place with the image “Daddy’s Girls” in this year’s 2021 IAPBP Birth Photography Image Competition!!!

You can follow Ashley on IG here: Ashley’s IG Account

Congrats Ashley!!!

2021 IAPBP Birth Photography Image Competition - International Association of Professional Birth Photographers

Image Competition Results Are Out!

THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL BIRTH PHOTOGRAPHERS

Have you seen this year’s birth photography image competition winners?

You can view 2021 Image Competition Results here:

VIEW 2021 BIRTH PHOTOGRAPHY IMAGE COMPETITION RESULTS

I am excited seeing many of the images I voted for during the Members Choice voting where we as members of IAPBP had the opportunity to vote for our peers image submissions.

I am dying to dive in and share with you who I voted for during Member’s Choice because I am so thrilled to see they made it to the very end of the competition but first a few words for my amazing colleagues who entered:

2020 was such a rough year for many people in many ways. I am so proud that we did not give up among the difficulties we faced. Many of us barely attended births in 2020. Despite all this, I am so proud that we stuck together as a community.

I am so proud of IAPBP and our members for coming together in our

2021

Theme of Community & Togetherness

In our 2021 Birth Photography image competition, IAPBP rolled out a brand new scoring rubric which is so exciting and we are confident in the final outcome of their judging. The full gallery is absolutely stunning and we are so proud of ALL of your work, especially given the challenges each of you overcame in 2020. Thank you for allowing us this opportunity to share your talent with the world!

A few statistics for the 2021 IAPBP Birth Photography Image Competition:

We had 371 images from 124 people in 14 different countries
Only 64 images were taken in 2019 (we were expecting a 50/50 split so this is amazing!)
More than 2500 comments were left on the full gallery of images with every single image receiving at least one piece of feedback (with some up to 15)! (This is an amazing reason to join IAPBP if you are not yet a member!)
Our community has existed for more than 11 years and started as a small online forum of birth photographers wanting to pave the way for this industry. Look how far we have come!

This is all incredible when you think about how much of an effect the pandemic had on our industry. We are celebrating another successful year of our annual image competition!

View the results here: https://birthphotographers.com/2021-birth-photography.../

I want to take a minute to thank my client, chiropractor Dr. Mya Orta and her husband along with their midwives Sandra Lobaina and Gelena Hinkley of Natural Birthworks Birth Center in Margate, FL for welcoming me and inviting me into their birth space. Without your trust and appreciation for my integrity and commitment to the birth work that I do, it would have not been possible for me to enter this image into the 2021 IAPBP Birth Photography Image Competition and proudly be awarded Honorable Mention of 2021.

Images I voted for in the 2021 IAPBP Birth Photographer Image Competition

Members Choice Awards

BEST IN BIRTH DETAILS

Charlene Foertser of Charlene Foerster Fotografie

“The Origin Of Life”

Germany

You can follow Charlene on Instagram: Charlene’s Instagram Page

BEST IN POSTPARTUM

Hanna Hill of Hanna Hill Photography

"My Body, My Birth"

United States

You can follow Hanna on Instagram: Hanna’s Instagram Page

HONORABLE MENTION

Ashley Marston of Ashley Marston Photography

"Home Birth in a Pandemic"

Canada

I didn’t get to vote for this image by Ashley Marston because we were limited on how many votes we could submit per image on the Members Choice but this was a huge favorite of mine

Dana Jacobs of Dana Jacobs Photography

"Of All Our Travels, This Journey Will Be Our Greatest"

United States

You can follow Dana on Instagram: Dana’s Instagram Page

HONORABLE MENTION

Kandyce Wagar of Songbird and Oak Photography

"This Moment 2020"

Canada

You can follow Kandyce on Instagram: Kandyce’s Instagram Page

Congratulations to ALL the entrants of the 2021 IAPBP Birth Photography Image Competition! I am proud of each and everyone of you! There were so many entries that are not in this blog post that I cannot wait to recognize!

I will be spending the next week reaching out to you all, as when I saw many of your images during the image competition during Member’s Choice, I kept thinking dang I wish I knew who the artist was, this is SO GOOD! I am so proud to be a member of IAPBP alongside of each of you.

I look forward to getting to know each and everyone of you better of this new 2021 year!