AMAZING PHOTOS! The Miracle Of Birth...Photographer captures the wondrous, miraculous moment of birth - in all its raw and unglamourised glory

• Suste Bonnen was given access to Copenhagen University Hospital
• Respected Danish photographer captures moment baby is given to mother
• Ms Bonnen followed 22 caesarean operations on the maternity ward
• 'Bloody and gory' images are 'testimony to the magical wonder of life'

  A photographer has captured the wondrous, miraculous moment of birth - in all its raw and unglamourised glory.
Taken before a mother has seen her baby for the first time these amazing photographs show the reality of how we all enter this world.
The warts and all pictures are the work of respected Danish photographer Suste Bonnen who was given unprecedented access to mothers while they were in labour.

Intimate: Danish photographer Suste Bonnen captured the moments after a baby was born in a series of extraordinary portraits

Shock: Ms Bonnen said the controversial images are 'testimony to the magical wonder of life'

 

Suste, 65, who has worked as a portrait photographer for 30 years, was given permission to take these remarkable shots at the Copenhagen University Hospital.

 

Compelling: Ms Bonnen said she wanted to show the emotion of birth as a mother set eyes on her child for the first time

Miracle: The thought-provoking series of photographs show birth in excruciating detail

Focus: Respected Danish photographer Suste Bonnen followed 22 caesarian operations in Copenhagen University Hospital

 

 

Illuminating: Photographer Suste Bonnen did not use special lighting only the lamps in the delivery ward to capture these fascinating and captivating portraits of child birth in Copenhagen University Hospital

 

Bracing: After nine months in the warm and comfort of the womb, the shock of the outside world does not seem to be a pleasurable experience for his baby

First breath: Ms Bonnen's photographs show the moment a child will take its first breath

Grasping: This baby shows it was born with a strong grip reflex as it grabs hold of a midwife's sleeve

Access: Respected Danish photographer Suste Bonnen who was given unprecedented access to the moment of birth at Copenhagen University Hospital

 

 

 

 

 

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