The Gate-Keepers: A Portraiture Project
This is a portraiture project, documenting the “gatekeepers” of a growing movement regarding positive birth experiences in our country. My aim: to promote those who are enabling women to identify with their power and femininity and therefore normalize birth and the body.
These are their stories / anecdotes / opinions about what they do and how they see it…accompanied by my portraits and some general information on each sitter.
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Gayle has been in health care for over 30 years and been a doula for 8 years. She specializes in color therapy and is also a qualified aromatherapist, reflexologist and yoga instructor. She works in areas between the Atlantic Seaboard, CBD and Southern Suburbs of Cape Town.
“I myself have had three home births but I choose to work in actual medical hospitals because someone has to hold the spiritual, psychological, emotional space for women to relax, feel safe and calm so that their brain/body can do what it knows- Let go, breathe out and let babies be born.”
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“If I could see some statistics change? It would be for South African women to have more vaginal births.”
• (I invite more participants to join the project, you are welcome to email me for more information).