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Liza - born February 26, 2013 at 8:45 am3kg 200 - 3 seconds of life
Dr.
Jean-François Morienval, an obstetrician in the hospital where his son
was born, asked Christian if he would be interested in taking a series
of portraits on the profession of midwifery.
After
a long discussion, the pair decided that the best solution would be for
Christian to join the doctors and nurses in the theatre while the child
was being born through c-section.
The
planning needed to undertake the project then took six months, with
Christian needing training to work in a surgical environment, requests
for permission to take photographs in the clinic and requests for
permission to take photographs of the mothers.
He also needed prepare mentally for what he was going to be seeing.
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Romane - born May 20, 2014 at 10:512kg 935 - 8 seconds of life
Christian
continued: 'Everything went very quickly. It was a big slap in my face.
I made photographs throughout the duration of the surgery.
'When everything was over and everything was fine, I went home. I drank coffee and waited several days.
'I knew I was not going to look at the world the same way.'
After
taking the five pictures that the doctor asked for over a period of
weeks, Christian realised that the photographs they had worked on
together provided a unique way of looking at birth.
Since
then, he has gone on to photograph more than 40 different babies in the
first few seconds outside the womb, which is now being shown at an
exhibition in Paris called the CESAR series.
He said: 'My perspective on the birth has changed. I discovered the dangers of birth.
'It
is for this reason that I have decided to show the beginnings of a new
human being, during the first seconds of his life. I am interested in
those first seconds only.
'And
what continues to amaze me is that it never stops. With each passing
moment, a child is born, from all over the world, all the time, births
never stop.
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Leanne - born April 8, 2014 at 8:31 am1kg 745 - 13 seconds of life
Christian
acknowledges that some people might find these pictures difficult to
look at, but he says that he sees beauty when he looks at the images.
He
said: 'I know there are people who react very badly, who find it
disgusting, they tell me that I do not have the right to show the
children in the bloodstream, some even told me that it is not real, it
is not true.
'This is absurd, children are not born in cabbages or roses.
'And there are those who are fascinated, I give them the opportunity to observe in detail the violence of birth.
'But there are also people like my wife, who encouraged me to do this work, because c is beautiful birth.'
CESAR is
being be shown in France during the Festival Circulations' Festival
Circulation Exhibition from January 24 to March 8, 2015 at Centquatre, 5
Rue Curial, Paris.
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