After winning the 2016 IAPBP Image competition for delivery category, her twin home water birth series was seen around the world, helping to spread awareness about physiologic birth. Robin has captured over 100 births since 2010 and loves the bonds she forms with her clients. She is the mother of 4 children and also works as a Registered Dental Hygienist. Her love of documentary photography started as a young child and will forever be a part of her life.

Its rare to find a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist (high risk doctor) who believes and speaks to the normalcy of birth even when faced with the most complicated pregnancies and fetal issues.Dr. Chavira inspires and moves people. He can easily move from speaking to a large group of providers, to consumers and birth professionals. Beyond technical talks, he speaks to the ways we can improve care overall.Dr. Chavira has spoken publicly in lectures, grand rounds, community forums and panels, podcasts, and large conferences.

She has been teaching a birth photography class with Summer Murdock's Illuminate Classes since 2016; and has taught and presented at various workshops and events such as The Family Narrative, Click Away | Amelia Island and Birthbound. Her published and commercial work includes both online articles with companies such as SayYes and HuffPost; as well, as in print magazines and spreads, including Midwifery Today, Kindred Magazine and Long Way Home. She won first place in 2018 in the Labor category for the IAPBP as well as was awarded their "Member's Choice."

Esther grew up in India, and came to the United States for college, where she met and married her husband; they have three children, and live in Spokane, WA. You can find Esther’s work on www.estheredith.com, and she is also the founder of www.thebirthgardenblog.com.

Kourtnie’s approach to photography stems from her truths as a wife and a mother awakened by an unimaginable diagnosis. In that moment she knew it was the everyday moments that were the most important. Cody has been in remission since May 2014, but Kourtnie’s approach to photographing her clients is forever changed, putting her heart and soul into each session with the mindset of wanting you to connect and feel something with each image you see. Kourtnie focuses on Birth, Postpartum, Family and Business Stories. She is an international award winning birth photographer who has been published and featured worldwide. Kourtnie a wife, mother of two, and passionate teacher and mentor. In her free times she loves cuddling with her littles and being a whovian.

Cat is co-founder of #TheBirthFemmes [an Instagram based platform focused on using the power of birth photography to inspire women to make informed birth choices], and facilitates birth photography workshops for local photographers and birth workers. Cat’s work is recognized internationally; receiving 2 honorable mentions in our 2017 competition and the members choice award in our 2018 competition.

She co-founded Canadian Birth Photographers organization in 2011 and has deeply enjoyed watching the birth photography industry grow in popularity across Canada and the world. Her work has been featured in print publications such as Midwifery Today, Vancouver Sun, Canadian Family, and was published in a 2015 book titled "For Love- 25 Heartwarming Celebrations of Humanity." After winning "Best Overall Image" from the IAPBP 2017 competition, she has chosen to focus on education, mentoring and speaking.

Her work has been both locally and internationally published in multiple magazines and on national tv and she contributes to photography magazines/blogs on the subject of birth photography from time to time. She also teaches one of the first in person birth photography workshops (birth stories 101) and has taught at The Baby Summit conference. Natasha has been dedicated to bringing the birth photography community closer together and helping others along their journey and she is excited to be invited to judge this years birth photography competition.

It is my desire to create photographs that do more than serve as proof that you existed, I want to show that you lived passionately and loved madly.I'm also an educator. I enjoy sharing the way I see beauty with other photographers. One of my greatest joys is helping others find the confidence they need to create meaningful, authentic artwork for both themselves and their clients.

After the home birth of her second child, in an age where professional birth photography was rarely heard of, Jane decided to forge a creative spot for herself, combining her two passions, that of photography and birth. Together with her incredible clients and her self taught photography skills she is breaking the stereotypical mold and proclaiming that birth is beautiful, a journey to be embraced and enjoyed. Having won many awards both nationally and internationally for her work (including 2nd place IAPBP 2015 and the Australian College of Midwives Birth Image of the Year in 2017), as well as being interviewed and published in numerous books and magazines, she has touched families worldwide with her raw and moving works of art, inspiring them to see birth in a different light. To see some of Jane’s work go to www.janemccraephotography.com

Via her Plus Mommy podcast and social media outlets, she seeks to create an environment of acceptance and end the stigma surrounding plus size pregnancy with education, support, and a sense of humor. She’s also a certified childbirth educator, wife, and mother to a charismatic 8-year-old.

I throw on some clothes, grab something to eat, drive (sometimes bleary-eyed) to the place of birth, and get my head in the game. Whatever was happening before is gone from my mind. It wasn't just me that signed up for this, but my husband, my 4 children. This isn't a job, this is a lifestyle. I couldn't do this without their support and understanding. I have to switch gears from mom/wife/chaffeur. The story continues with me walking into the birth space and taking everything in. Reading the room. Like a game of double dutch, I jump in only when the moment is right. I observe mom. I carefully choose my frames. I play them out in my mind before, during and after so that I can be sure I am telling the story with precision and grace. You can't have an "off" day in this gig. There's no second chance to capture a once-in-a-lifetime moment. So, come what may - be it lousy lighting, cramped spaces, unwelcoming staff, temperamental equipment, you better be ready for anything. Then, after baby is born, a new story begins. 1 becomes 2 or 2 becomes 3 and I watch again as life makes way for this new little addition who has to adjust to bright lights, cold air and loud voices. And I document it all. Every cry, every coo, every grimace and sometimes smile, every suckle, every curled toe and splayed finger and unfocused gaze on mom. There is no one moment that is more spectacular than another. Every second is photo-worthy. And that is precisely what I love about birth photography. Award winning and published birth photographer Leilani Rogers has been featured on television and in print all over the world. She has been a keynote speaker at numerous photography conferences, and has held the title of Best Birth Photographer in the city of Austin since 2013. Leilani strives to push the boundaries that define birth photography with her online platform Birthbound Photographer, a collection of classes that focus on the art and business of this craft. Leilani is also the founder of the world renowned Public Breastfeeding Awareness Project(PBAP), an initiative to normalize public breastfeeding which includes over 60 photographers from around the globe.

Her work has been published nationally and internationally as well as being invited to speak at conferences in Brazil and Argentina. Over the last 6 years she has taught more than 20 intensive in person birth photography workshops. Vívian is co-founder of Portal Hora Dourada, an online platform which brings together the largest network of birth photographer in Brazil, using the power of birth photography, along with other tools, to empower women, enabling them to make conscious and informed birth choices.

As a current military spouse, she loves traveling all over the world, capturing its beauty through her lens, however, her greatest passion remains birth photography.

Both in 2016 and 2018 Marijke won the IAPBP Image of the Year Competition and got published in numerous magazines and websites all over the world. Marijke is the founder and owner of www.geboortefotografie.be and a co-founder of www.geboortefotografen.com, the official association of professional birth photographers in Belgium and The Netherlands, which offers a platform and information for parents, photographers and medical staff. Through her work, Marijke wants to show the illusion of separation between mother and child at birth. Even though the delivery marks their physical separation, she believes a much deeper connection is established almost immediately afterwards. It is that magical moment of connecting on a deeper level that takes your breath away time and time again .. Being a mother to two wonderful children herself, she believes each and every child she has photographed at birth will - one day - look at those pictures and feel how much they are loved.

She became a midwife in 1977 after the powerful homebirth of one of her daughters. Her mission is to make loving midwifery care the norm for birthing women and their babies throughout the world. She does this by organizing Midwifery Today conferences around world as well as publishing the magazine. One of her favorite tasks is to look at photos of mothers and babies and births so she is honored to participate in this contest.

She is a mother of three girls (one in heaven) and a wife to her God-fearing husband who supplies her caffeine addiction and adds to her laugh lines. Their dream is to travel the U.S. in an Airstream, but she quickly remembers that they have a 100 pound German Shepherd who whines too much.