The photographer who chronicles childbirth
The Hindu
Artist and birth photographer Rachel Koshy’s frames capture the strength and vulnerability of women in labour
There are no second takes, no flash, no props, no make up, nor stylist. “And there is absolutely no posing,” says Rachel Koshy. “What you get are a few moments of unadulterated truth”.
Kochi-based artist and birth photographer Rachel has been documenting natural births for the past five years. Sometimes the pictures are not pretty, says Rachel, but they capture emotion in its rawest form.
When Rachel had her second baby at her home, in a natural birth setting, she was amazed by the support she had through the entire process. “I wasn’t abandoned on a table, left to wonder what would become of me. There were people around me every step of the way. That was the picture I had always had in my mind. I wished that I could freeze those moments,” says Rachel. That was a starting point of her interest in birth photography.