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Birth
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Midwife Sarit Shatken-Stern gives birth at The Birthplace at Baystate Franklin Medical Center, where she works, with the help of her husband, Adam Stern, and her colleagues. The Birthplace gives women an unusual degree of decision-making power in their births, and all low-risk deliveries are attended by a Certified Nurse Midwives with doctor backup. As a result, the facility has some of the lowest rates of Cesarean in the state.
Shot on assignment for Lifetime/A&E.
Her first book, Go Photo! An Activity Book for Kids was published by Aperture in 2016. Alice's work has been published by New York Magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Nation, the Boston Globe, The New Republic, Fast Company, the Guardian, Harpers, Cosmopolitan and others.
She has received support from the International Women's Media Foundation, the Magnum Foundation, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Solutions Journalism Network and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and was selected for Review Santa Fe 2014 and the New York Portfolio Review 2016.
Her photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York, International Photo Festival Leiden, Photoville, the Oso Bay Biennial, San José Foto, New York University and United Photo Industries.
In addition to her documentary work, Alice has taught photography since 2002 and was the lead curriculum writer for On Sight, Aperture’s photography and visual literacy curriculum. Alice grew up in Greenfield, MA. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Photography and Imaging and lives in Brooklyn.
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Midwife Sarit Shatken-Stern gives birth at The Birthplace at Baystate Franklin Medical Center, where she works, with the help of her husband, Adam Stern, and her colleagues. The Birthplace gives women an unusual degree of decision-making power in their births, and all low-risk deliveries are attended by a Certified Nurse Midwives with doctor backup. As a result, the facility has some of the lowest rates of Cesarean in the state.
Shot on assignment for Lifetime/A&E.
About author:
Alice Proujansky is a documentary photographer covering women and labor: birth, work, motherhood and identity. Her personal projects include Birth Culture, Women's Work and Migrant Families.Her first book, Go Photo! An Activity Book for Kids was published by Aperture in 2016. Alice's work has been published by New York Magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Nation, the Boston Globe, The New Republic, Fast Company, the Guardian, Harpers, Cosmopolitan and others.
She has received support from the International Women's Media Foundation, the Magnum Foundation, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Solutions Journalism Network and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and was selected for Review Santa Fe 2014 and the New York Portfolio Review 2016.
Her photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York, International Photo Festival Leiden, Photoville, the Oso Bay Biennial, San José Foto, New York University and United Photo Industries.
In addition to her documentary work, Alice has taught photography since 2002 and was the lead curriculum writer for On Sight, Aperture’s photography and visual literacy curriculum. Alice grew up in Greenfield, MA. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Photography and Imaging and lives in Brooklyn.
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