Jennifer Loomis is a fine-art photographer and photojournalist, who is best known for depictions of

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Early life

Loomis was born in

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but lived all over the world as a child and young adult. She has resided in Virginia, Indiana, and Kansas, while living internationally in Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, and Kenya. Before becoming a photographer, Loomis was working in

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's studio. There she witnessed a photo shoot of the pregnant

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to be featured in ''Vanity Fair''. This photo shoot was an inspiration for Loomis to explore the beauty in the changing bodies of pregnant women.

Career

By 2006, she had photographed over 1000 pregnant women. Loomis compiled photographs to create a book, ''Portraits of Pregnancy'', co-authored by Hugo Kugiya, a journalist.

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and Abby Epstein, authors of ''Your Best Birth'', claim, “Jennifer Loomis’s evocative and moving portraits of pregnancy are a joy to behold. The images will captivate you and the stories of these women’s diverse journeys to motherhood will touch your heart.”

Publicity

Loomis and her work as a pregnancy photographer have been featured in TIME Magazine, CBS News, CBS's The Morning Show, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, Fit Pregnancy, Pregnancy Magazine, NPR, Good Morning America, and Inside Edition, along with other media.

Exhibitions

Loomis has had her work included in a variety of exhibitions. In 2004, her photography was included in the exhibition "We are Family: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Parents," at 2223 Restaurant in the

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. In 2011, Loomis had her work exhibited in Perugia, Italy in a museum of contemporary art called Palazzo Della Penna.

Works

''Portraits of Pregnancy:Birth of a Mother''

References

External links

Artist's website

Interview, ''Seattle Refined'', 2020
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