Rosemarie Doumitt
Every pregnancy is a journey into the unknown.
Twins may nestle together in positions which they adopted in the uterus.
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Rosemarie
Doumitt - Photographer
Rosemarie's skilled photography reveals emotional aspects
of pregnancy in a sensitive and unusual way.
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| Play and shared pleasure are vital elements in the
development of the baby as a person and a woman as a mother. |
Rosemarie is a New Orleans based free lance photographer, educator and fine artist
specializing in prenatal and birthing imagery.
She holds a B.A. in photography from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and an
M.F.A. in photography from the University of New Orleans. She has taught photography at
Isidore Newman School and at Delgado Community College for twelve years.
Rosemarie is currently working on obtaining funding for “The International Prenatal
and Birthing Project.” “The International Prenatal and Birthing Project” is
a photographic research project focusing on pregnant women and their birthing experiences.
The main goal is to develop and publish a body of photographic work accompanied by rich
interview documentation of women during pregnancy and birth, for the purpose of creating
cross-cultural dialogue about their individual and group experiences. This project will
gather, record and share women's feelings, thoughts, beliefs and practices surrounding
pregnancy and childbirth. Specifically, the imagery and text will allow women from
different cultures around the world to voice how they may uniquely or collectively
experience things such as empowerment, self-efficacy, control or lack of control, issues
around self-esteem and body image, along with many other emotional and physical hardships
they may have encountered during their pregnancies and births.
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| Birth involves our relationship to life as a whole, the
part we play in the order of things: and as the baby develops and can be felt moving
inside, to some women annunciation, incarnation, seem to become facts of their own
existence. |
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