It's always up to the client to decide how much skin they want to show on a shoot. For Miss L. shoot, we worked around nudity, soft pinks, and black and whites. It was all about expressing the soft and delicate side of her pregnancy. We even got her partner to jump in at the end of the shoot. #body #breasts #newshoot #mmaternityphotography #realbodies #realwomen #pregnancy #pregnant #maternity #nude #love #photography

The shocking thing about Laura Dodsworth's pictures of 100 women's breasts isn't the flesh on show, or the many shapes and sizes, but the realisation that images of unairbrushed, non-uniform breasts seem to be so rare. "We see images of breasts everywhere," says the 41-year-old photographer, "but they're unreal. They create an unflattering comparison but also an unobtainable ideal. I wanted to rehumanise women through honest photography." Dodsworth interviewed each woman at l

Therapist Susie Orbach on body image, the commercialisation of happiness and her 'Endangered Species' campaign. From The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2011/mar/14/susie-orbach-comment-is-free #video #susieorbach #pregnant #pregnancy #body #love #photography #endangeredspecies

Shape Your Culture works to challenge the limited physical representation of women and girls (and increasingly men and boys) in contemporary society. SYC began as a project with young women in schools and youth groups, asking them what they wanted to see, hear, say and do. From this starting point they encouraged and facilitated projects projects where participants expressed their frustration, honed their messages and creatively used their voices. The results were truly excel