Selena Rollason is an award-winning birth and documentary photographer from Brisbane, Australia with more than 20 years of experience in the photography industry, and 10 years as a birth photographer. She is a passionate storyteller, powerful and emotive photojournalist that works to break societal taboos and is known for raising important discussions around the challenges of parenthood, childbirth and other realities of everyday parenting life.

Selena’s photographs have been published internationally in media around the world (from Huffington Post to the Today Show) and have seen her win more than 10 International, National and State Photography Titles including the 2019 Photojournalism Grand Award at WPPI, 2015 & 2016 Australian Birth Photographer of the Year titles, Queensland Travel (2017), Documentary (2018) and Birth (2016) Photographer of the Year titles, as well as the illustrious AIPP EPSON 2018 Queensland Professional Photographer of the Year.

Leilani Rogers is an award-winning, veteran birth photographer with a lifetime of experience in the visual arts industry. As the Founder of The Public Breastfeeding Awareness Project and Birthbound Photographer, as well as being named Austin’s Best Birth Photographer for over 6 years, she brings an unparalleled perspective to our 2020 judge panel.

Leilani’s achievements are numerous: Austin’s Best Birth Photographer 2013-2019, Featured on television and in print in The Huffington Post, Midwifery Today, Redbook Magazine, People, FStoppers, CLICK, SELF, Cosmopolitan, ABC News, TODAY, Woman’s Day, and Hello Giggles, Keynote speaker at Off-Call in 2015 and 2017, Instructor at The Baby Summit in 2016, Both finalist and winner in prior IAPBP Image Competitions (2014/2017), Finalist in Lensculture’s Portait of the Year Competition 2017, Exhibited with Lensculture throughout Europe in 2018, Finalist in ClickinMom’s VOICE Collection 2017, Editor’s choice with National Geographic Your Shot’s “The Gift of Life” assignment 2017, 6th place in Birth, Shoot&Share in 2018 Competition, Founder of the Public Breastfeeding Awareness Project Founder of Birthbound Photographer

Samantha Evans is a Motherhood photographer with a great interest in matrescense and honouring everything it means to become a Mother. She aims to capture the raw, beautiful details along with the emotions of maternity, birth, newborn and everyday family moments.

Samantha lives in beautiful Kamloops, BC Canada with her three young sons and two very large, very hairy Bernese Mountain dogs.

Belle Verdiglione is an Australian based creative, founder of the Camera Queens and pioneer in embodied Potent Identity™ Photography. Using her leadership and legacy as the example, Belle personifies what’s possible when we let our most vulnerable edges conceive new levels of creativity that truly change how we see ourselves.

Jelina Sonnenberg is an ever evolving human being constantly learning which then translates into everything she does. From birth work to bereavement work, birth photography and videography, to mentoring and even parenting. She received her BA in Human Development/Counseling Services with the intent to pursue a career in therapy but ended up changing her path after experiencing the birth of her first in 2017. She recently moved to Central Illinois from San Diego with her family to chase their dreams and live life just a little bit slower. 

Jerusha Sutton is an award winning birth photographer, videographer, doula and filmmaker from Sydney Australia. She first began supporting women in birth as a doula in 2006, and added photography into her offerings in 2012. Jerusha has spent the past 4.5 years co-creating the feature film Birth Time: the documentary, with midwife Jo Hunter and actor Zoe Naylor, due for Australian release in February 2021, with the rest of the world release to follow closely behind.

Caroline Bologna is a reporter at HuffPost, where she covers culture and parenting. A native of New Orleans, she graduated from Brown University and is currently based in New York. She is passionate about photography, world travel, and women’s issues.

Jana was the only photographer in Latin America to win an award in our 2020 Birth Photography Image Competition with the photo of Bebe Noah Impelicated.

Her work has been recognized by one of the largest associations of family photographers, Inspiration Family, where she had some award-winning photos and was nominated the Family Revelation Photographer in 2018 by the Golden Lens, the Oscar of Photography in Brazil and in 2019 she was also nominated the best photographer of the year by the same association.

In addition to the IAPBP, she is also a member of other very important photography associations, Inspiration Photographers, Outstanding Maternity, FineArt and FPJA

Jana has been a speaker at Café com Foto, an event aimed at ES photographers as well as at the LUME / WEDDING BRASIL Family Center, the largest photography congress in Latin America.

She photographed her first delivery in June 2015. One month later she was invited by obstetrician Dr Rafael Angelo Baggieri to be part of her team where she continues to work today.

Her passion is to capture unforgettable moments full of love!

Hanna Hill-Destigter is a multi-award-winning birth and motherhood photographer based in Durham, England who specializes in emotive documentary art that captures the powerful transformation into parenthood. She has been in the industry for over 12 years and has successfully relocated her business five different times as her family moves all around the world.

Along with photography, Hanna does social media management for photographers and companies, including IAPBP. She also designs creative websites for small businesses especially birth workers and photographers who want to express their art in a professional and empowering way.

She is a fierce mamma bear to her one little boy and married to her best friend.

Kimberly Kimble is an internationally published, award winning photographer and birthworker in Portland, OR. She is the face behind Rushes & Waves and a 2019 IAPBP competition winner. Self taught with 15 years of experience, she started her birth focused business in 2017 and has been photographing births ever since.

Kimberly has also been recognized for her protest photography and is working on a creative body project called “bare”. Her work is raw and honest. She loves capturing real human emotion. When she’s not behind the lens, she is writing, adventuring, binge watching The Office and loving on her little family.

Dora Barens is an award-winning birth photographer from The Netherlands. As one of the first birth photographers of the country, she’s been documenting birth stories since 2011 and it has become her mission to put this industry on the map in The Netherlands. Her work has been featured in countless national and international publications and she’s also a past winner of the IAPBP Image Competition.

Dora loves to capture the emotional roller coaster of giving birth in a discreet yet powerful way. As Amsterdam’s leading birth photographer she enjoys working in the multicultural environment of the city and the quite unique Dutch midwifery care system makes her work even more interesting.

Dora is a native Hungarian but she’s living in The Netherlands with her Dutch husband and their two teenage children.

Ash Davenport is a renowned wedding and birth photographer from London, UK. A natural-born artist and thrill seeker, Ash is constantly raising the bar with his life and photography.

He approaches every shoot as an exciting new adventure to capture images that make you smile, cry, and laugh out loud. He is constantly observing what’s unique about the people in front of him and the love that the connects family and friends. When he is not behind his camera, he’s running marathons, swimming competitively with his Olympian brother, or trekking up Everest (for his honeymoon).