Photographing the exquisite experience of childbirth for the first time in 1975, I longed for everyone to see what I was witnessing… courage, strength, love, passion in the grace of woman giving birth, babe being born. The profound emotional, bodily, social and spiritual realms came into utterly clear focus.

I am delighted and privileged to work with the affirming power of photography.
Photography brings to sight what has been lived. Photographs give time to ponder the details.
I integrate photography with my background in psychology and the experience of being a midwife to make visible the exquisite realm of birth.

My photographs appear in many publications (selected list):

• Princeton University Press
• Harcourt Health Sciences
• Simon & Schuster
• Mothering
• American Baby
• Mosby
• St. Martin’s Press
• Prentice-Hall
• TenSpeed/Celestial Arts

Writer

• BROUGHT to EARTH by BIRTH

Guest Lecturer (selected list):

• University of Michigan
• Columbia University
• Lamaze International Conference
• American College of Nurse Midwives
• Midwifery Today Conferences
• Yale University
• Michigan State University

Producer:

• DVDs
• Visual Presentations
• The Birth Disc, 1989. 10,000 photographs on a laser disc illustrating the childbirth experience.