In 2020, in the first week of the pandemic lockdown, I was sick with Covid, and my partner Magda, said she felt like she was pregnant. She went out to Tesco, as I lay on the couch, got a pregnancy test and soon we found out we were going to be parents.
At the time, I wanted to change the way I was shooting and start shooting portraits. I thought photos of Magda throughout her pregnancy would be a great start. We were in lockdown throughout most of the year, so we had plenty of time. Learn how to shoot film, work with square format and start to develop my understanding of a slower approach to taking photos.
I wanted to work on a more considered set of photos, less snapshots and more arranged. Arranging the photos instead of finding them. I had never worked like this, so it was a real change in approach. I also wanted to consider light more and play with natural light in the different shots.
This was a real personal project for me and feel like, in the future, it will give us a look back to this time, place and memories. This project shows Magda as she became visibly pregnant, although in the early photos you can’t see any physical signs, its was always on our minds.
I’ve made a book of these photos since I wanted all of these images to live in the real world and be something. These photos really want to be printed and I feel like the book became what this body of work needed to become.
In the end, our beautiful beautiful daughter, Isabel was born and our lifes changed beyond anything I could imagine.
