Collectors’ Large Edition, POWER PILGRIMAGE (70s Bus Birth) Ed 10 Photograph

‘Power Pilgrimage’ from award-winning fine art series Birth Undisturbed by Natalie Lennard, in Collector's Large Edition on Hahnemuhle Pearl Rag Paper at 90 x 120cm, limited to 10 +2AP. Artwork comes printed with 2cm border in addition to size stated, accompanied with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. Every image in Birth Undisturbed is Giclee printed with OEM 70+ year archival inks. The series is shot on world-class 100 megapixel Phase One IQ3 medium format to provide rich impeccable quality with exceptional detail on both screen and print. ____ "I found myself in a school bus, somebody was giving birth and wanted me to be there. She has the baby in two hours, looking wildly beautiful - that was the astonishing thing. Wow. Later, when I talked to doctors and nurses, I found out how rare that was that your first glimpse of birth was this wild beauty." — Ina May Gaskin.
 In 1971, three hundred hippies set off from California in a convoy of 90 trucks and schoolbuses to find a new life. The pregnant women amongst them, out a desire to treat birth as a normal part of proceedings, passed around birth manuals and learnt to deliver each others' babies on the road. It was the memory of the very first woman, calmly and tenderly birthing in the arms of her husband in the back of a bus on a pitstop, that was to change the lives of two watching women in particular: Ina May Gaskin and Pamela Hunt. Called in spontaneously to assist, and watching in wonder at the first natural birth they'd ever seen, Ina May would describe it decades later as an 'astonishing, wild beauty' that 'gave her something that has never left'.