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4 cze 2016 · Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness...
12 lut 2015 · There's no one right way to grieve over such a loss, so some families have chosen a solemn and beautiful way to immortalize the lives that could have been – family photos together with their lifeless infants.
18 lut 2020 · Hochberg has photographed 500 to 600 families, including those whose infant died shortly after birth as well as those who lost an older child. He presents each family with an album with...
19 mar 2013 · A photo shoot with a dead baby may sound morbid, especially in a culture that tends to be uncomfortable with death. But remembrance photography provides grieving parents with lasting memories of their children who lived so briefly that little else exists to remember them by.
Neonatal Immersion Photography (NIP) is the practice of fully immersing an infant in water for the purposes of underwater photography after they have passed away. With the use of a clear tub and saline water, the baby is immersed and then photographed through the clear walls of the tub.
Since 2014, ShootProof has collaborated with Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep to provide free online galleries to families devastated by the death of a newborn baby. The photographers who volunteer with Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep donate their time, talent, and compassion, providing photographs of stillborn babies and newborns for whom death is imminent.
For many Victorians post-mortem photographs were one way to cope with death as well as to memorialize lost loved ones. This tinted cabinet card studio portrait of infant Edward Fisher was commissioned by grieving parents in Rockford County, Illinois in 1867. (Photo from author’s family collection)
