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.

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. 

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.

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.

I am a wife, mother, and birth photographer from the Midwest creating provocative art below the Mason Dixon line. I draw inspiration from the diaspora – how we interact with the world around us and vice versa; how we both challenge societal views of us as well as reclaim negative stereotypes as our own. My art is boldly political and beautifully subversive.

Jaydene Freund is an award winning birth photographer and filmmaker located in Vancouver, Canada. After co-founding Canadian Birth Photographers in 2011, she has enjoyed the challenge of mentoring and building the birth photography industry up across Canada. Freund won IAPBP Image of the Year in 2017 for her image titled “Road to Deliverance.”

Marijke Thoen , Birth & Motherhood photographer

Marijke Thoen is a Belgian based birth & motherhood photographer. Marijke has been active as a birth photographer since 2008. She won the annual IAPBP competition in 2016 and 2018, amongst many other International Awards. With the award-winning-image from 2018 being banned from social media she took action which eventually resulted in Fb and IG changing their policies and allowing uncensored birth images on their platforms.

Currently working on a book project, with real, raw and honest portraits of mothers. With these portraits it is her goal to empower mothers, and women in general, to see the beauty and sacredness of their perfectly imperfect bodies.

When not behind her camera, Marijke likes to spend time on the yoga mat or in nature. She enjoys to have deep conversations about life with her beloved teenagers and watch sunsets with her Brazilian girlfriend.

Brittney Hogue began as a birth photographer in Central Illinois in 2016 and has been a member of the IAPBP since 2017. She has become a well known name throughout the Midwest in the birth niche for both photography and videography. Brittney believes documentary imagery can serve as a self-expressive tool of intrinsic processing. By art-making with birthing people, the opportunity exists to influence the narratives which are adopted surrounding their experiences. Brittney therefore believes birth photography exists not only to enrich the birthing experience, but to be a platform to amplify marginalized voices, as well as a way for birthing people to assert their autonomy in historically limiting spaces.

Brittney currently lives in Pekin, IL with her partner, three children, three cats, two dogs, a large real-life TBR, and larger than life dreams. She is currently pursuing higher education to obtain the designation of Registered Art Therapist in the state of Illinois and hopes to contribute research in the future on the effects of art-making in the processing of traumatic perinatal experiencing.

Sunday Tortelli is a DONA Approved Birth Doula trainer, DONA Advanced Certified Birth Doula, past President of DONA International and current member of the DONA Certification Committee. She is certified as a childbirth educator with BirthWorks International, the HypnoBirthing Institute, Lamaze International, and Spinning Babies. Sunday is also Co-Leader and Member Relations Chair for ICAN of Greater Cleveland.