The results are in!

The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Birth Photography Image Competition! Thank you to each and every entrant who participated this year and, of course, the families who agreed to share their birth moments with the world!

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The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Birth Photography Image Competition!

This year’s submissions are nothing short of breathtaking and powerful. This year, for the first time since the start of our annual competition in 2012, we invited images of Hardship & Loss to be submitted which brought a new level of power and strength like we have never seen before. We are celebrating a record amount of entries and the greatest body of work we have ever published! All images have been shared with the permission of the family and the photographer. Please respect their choice and copyright. Do not copy, print or save any of the images. Please share a link to this page!

Media:

If you would like to do a story on the competition please complete our Media Request Form before using or sharing any images. Images can only be shared once the form is complete. Proper credit and hyperlinks to the photographer / copyright owner are required. We will provide you with all the contact info, photographer links and watermarked / web ready images in one download. Requests for an interview or quote with our Director should be directed

Find a Birth Photographer or Videographer:

If you would like to find a birth photographer or videographer in your area, please visit our Artist Directory. If you are a birth photographer or videographer and would like to become a member of the IAPBP, you can find out more information on some of our membership benefits and packages on this page.

Please note: While birth is beautiful, it is also messy and real. You should expect nudity when viewing the entries. Be sure to scroll down to view all of the gorgeous entries from this year.

Judges’ Award Titles

This year we made changes to the structure of our categories and award titles for the first time since 2019. In addition to our returning four main categories of Birth Details, Labor, Delivery and Postpartum, we introduced another new category: Hardship & Loss. We removed the category of Fresh48 and added three additional subcategories under each main category: Black & White, Documentary and Fine Art. We are thrilled to be awarding so many new titles for this year’s competition because experience has taught us that there was always more entrants that are deserving of recognition than there were award titles.