Skin to Skin

Silver with Distinction and second place for ‘Skin to Skin’: The 2026 Australian Photographic Prize Family category

This monochrome portrait explores the visceral reality of new motherhood, capturing the profound vulnerability in a woman’s gaze. As the baby rests peacefully in her arms, her intense expression reveals the quiet weight of postpartum exhaustion. By presenting their bodies without artifice, this portrait honors the physical transformation of birth and the complex emotions that follow. It is a quiet study in raw, intimate truth and the enduring connection between mother and child.