#ANNE GEDDES MY FIRST FIVE YEARS FLOWERS SERIES#

She sets up her studio in advance – props, lighting, cameras, and equipment - so that all the baby or babies have to do is sit. 'You have to be really fast,' Geddes says about getting good shots. Ī typical sitting takes place in the morning when the babies are well-rested, and lasts about half an hour otherwise, the babies could get too bored or fussy. Geddes currently resides in New York with her husband Kel. Instead, she keeps in touch with multiple birth and twin clubs and has thousands of photographs on file that parents have sent her. Geddes does not audition babies for use as models because she believes all babies are beautiful. She shot photographs of 15 child survivors of meningitis for the Protecting Our Tomorrows: Portraits of Meningococcal Disease campaign. The photographs depict families and children that have been affected by the disease and honours those who have survived.

#ANNE GEDDES MY FIRST FIVE YEARS FLOWERS SERIES#

In 2013, she created a series for the survivors of Meningococcal disease.

Geddes created her own philanthropic program named 'Geddes Philanthropic Trust', whose primary focus was to raise awareness of child abuse and neglect. Geddes also shoots for philanthropic causes. She assisted a local photographer before starting her own studio from her garage. Geddes became a photographer at age 30 after she moved to Melbourne due to her husband's work. She started specializing in baby photography after using photographs of her two daughters for a family Christmas card which proved popular. By the time the couple returned to Sydney two years later, she had built a small portfolio. There, at age 25, she taught herself photography using her husband's 35mm Pentax K1000 camera. Later, she met and married Kel Geddes, and moved to Hong Kong in 1983 for his work in television. She dropped out of school at 17 and left home. In her 2007 autobiography Labor of Love, Geddes talked about her difficult early years at their family cattle farm in Queensland, Australia.

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