Submission - Twelve Moons (series)

Twelve Moons is a documentary series focusing on 12 Australian home births during the time we all stayed home, due to the global pandemic of covid19. With new and restrictive hospital regulations, an increase in home births continued in the community. The work aims to bring light to a fading birthing culture within western civilisation, and to find comfort again in nature and in the home. It acts as a nod to bygone rituals and a warm universal embrace from one woman to another. This nostalgic all analogue-shot story (inspired by film birth photographs in birthing text books from the 70s), works to land viewers somewhere between reality and fantasy, present time and the past, in many ways allowing the photography to represent the journey of birth - bridging between two worlds and two time chapters. The long-form series also acts as a mirror for any viewer, mother or not, with birth the common journey among all humans. Ultimately, the series sets out to celebrate the power, the unknown, the natural, the primal, the love, the life, and the home.