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Nobody tells you that the last weeks of pregnancy are also the last weeks of being just you.

You’re not quite a mother, yet. But you’re not quite yourself anymore either.

Somewhere in between, carrying a whole person you haven’t met.

This is the photo of the woman you were, right before.

Before the sleepless nights. Before you start disappearing, just a little, into someone else’s story for a while.

If you’re in it right now, I’d love to capture it for you.

Nobody posts the days that just get survived.

The just-getting-through ones.

Some days, surviving is the whole job.

This one is for those, wherever you are with that today, could be personal, could be work, could be everything at once.

No advice today. Just, I see it. Keep going if you can.

Before her shoot, she wrote something I haven’t stopped thinking about.

She said seeing herself differently might help her realise that parts of her are seen and accepted, maybe even liked, for what they are, despite the internal narrative she tells herself about them.

And you know what? She is not the only one.

We see ourselves so differently than others see us.

That gap is where this work lives. I’m not trying to make anyone look like someone else. I’m showing them what was already there, just from outside their own head.

And that image becomes a print. Something to hold, not to just scroll past. A different mirror.

If you’ve never seen yourself the way others do, this is your invitation.

There is something special that happens when you hold a printed album for the first time.

Its weight.
The texture under your fingers.
The sound of the pages turning.
The way the images look back at you, solid and real, in a way a screen never quite manages.

A digital file exists somewhere.

A printed album IS somewhere. You can feel the difference.

This is a newborn album. Leatherette cover, gold embossed text, lay flat pages that let every image breathe.

It is the final chapter of a session, the moment everything we created together becomes something you can live, enjoy and pass down.

This is why, after a shoot, a printed product is never an afterthought for me. It is the whole point.

And it is also why I am not the right photographer for everyone. If you are looking for a gallery of just digitals and nothing more, I would gently point you elsewhere.

But if you want something you can hold, something that feels like it truly exists, something your child will one day open and say this was us, then we should talk.

Newborn photography in Richmond and Twickenham.