Nobody thought the pandemic would last this long. In Mexico, isolation was followed by a weird new normality where everyone tried to continue with their lives as they could. People continued going out, working if they had work and having babies.
Pandemic babies is a project that portrays the home labor processes of Mexico City's women, who are not only giving birth to their babies during the pandemic, but also got pregnant during this period. This series reflects on the duration of the pandemic, so long that new human lives were fully developed in this time, but also brings the attention to an important factor that has been denied by a medical system that profits itself from making unnecessary surgeries: women can give birth with the help of midwives in healthier, more respectful and human conditions.
This project speaks to every person that needs to take a rest of the continuous flow of pandemic images we have been watching for more than a year while talking directly to the women who haven't been respectfully treated by the health system, showing all women that another way of giving birth is possible.
Pandemic babies is a finished project, funded by the National Geographic Society.I am looking for a place for the international publication of this project. That's why I am presenting an extended version of my edition, so editors can also look what photos we have to work with for the final publication.
A small selection of this essay has been published on local media as requested by National Geographic grant.
