The photographer Elle Wickens She is one of the last victims of social networks, who have been censoring the process of childbirth and breastfeeding for years as if they were provocative images. His photo collection, titled "Power of Birth" He intended to show the world how powerful it can be to bring a new life, the miracle of birth and the excitement of seeing how babies are born and, in a way, how we were born.
However, it seems that to Instagram all this does not seem so magical, not so worthy of being shared, and last week he closed his page @ earth.babes for considering that the photos were not suitable.
The page disappeared for a few hours
Elle, 21, was hit hard to hear the news that his page had been removed. He felt pain not only for the attack on his work, but also, and above all, for seeing that women's struggle to show themselves as they are, human, capable of giving birth, of breastfeeding, on their wildest side, must continue active
She just wanted to show the mothers in one of the most incredible moments of their lives, powerful, capable, brave, loving, and without hiding what they are; and all this away from provocation, from the other photos that do show nudes and nobody criticizes.
The page disappeared for almost a whole day, but then it was restored. Wickens received an email telling him it had been an accident. Instead, he had previously received another one that said the photos were not compatible with the community norms because the only photos that allow nudity on Instagram are the 'Healing photos after a mastectomy and of lactating women'.
He made several complaints about it, contributing his opinion, and that was when it worked again. Now, however, the page is deleted again, we don't know if for the same reason.
Why share photos of naked women breastfeeding, or newly delivered?
We then enter the eternal dilemma: to what extent is it logical to share such intimate moments as motherhood, or breastfeeding, in which the woman exposes her naked body?
Well, I would not be a woman, nor my wife has done it, but that does not mean that it seems bad that other people do. In fact, it seems to me a perfect and precious way to see newborn babies, see how they are born and what happens in the first hours. This, a few years ago, was unthinkable, and there is nothing that more helps to normalize something that is normal, but hides, than expose it.
We are all tired of seeing half-naked women in the posters and advertisements of the middle city, in the magazines and even on TV. The objectification of women is such that seeing naked women doing something different and not at all provocative is even appreciated. So at least we can see them in the purest and wildest meaning of the body, at that moment when it opens like a flower to give way to life, and after the storm comes the calm of a new life.
Hopefully, Instagram, that we can see Elle's photos again and that now it will not be a norm to eliminate all the accounts of women who give birth and breastfeed their babies.
Via and Photos | DailyMail
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