Artist's Edition: Extreme Pain, Extreme Joy + Limited-Edition Print
A collector’s bundle featuring an original, limited-edition signed 8.5”x11” print (on Canson Baryta Photographique II) from Maggie Shannon’s forthcoming Extreme Pain, Extreme Joy along with a copy of the book, out in November. Choice of four exclusive prints: Birth Circle, Belly, Window and Hands. (Prints ship in September; book ships in November.)
Shannon’s award-winning titular photo series began as a documentation of midwife-led home births after much of the US went into lockdown in early March 2020; now it is recontextualized in book form, complete with a foreword by Angela Garbes, an artist Q&A with critic Gem Fletcher and a slew of never-before-seen images that together create a timeless meditation on this fundamental human experience.
Capturing the entire process of birth—the exhaustion along the way, the agony of the moment of, the surreal relief of the after and the lulls in between—Shannon offers a rare view of mothers, becoming.
About the artist:
Maggie Shannon is a photographer specializing in portrait and documentary work. She tells stories of small communities and their social rituals in order to elevate marginalized voices and build a more inclusive world. Her approach is rooted in honesty, empathy, and endless curiosity.
Hailing from Martha's Vineyard, Shannon received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in Photography, Video and Related Media. Shannon was selected as a 2018 PDN Emerging Photographer and was named one of Magnum's 30 under 30 (2014). She is a member of Women Photograph and her work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, Die Zeit, Wall Street Journal, Time, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, People and The New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Roy and their daughter Charlotte.
A collector’s bundle featuring an original, limited-edition signed 8.5”x11” print (on Canson Baryta Photographique II) from Maggie Shannon’s forthcoming Extreme Pain, Extreme Joy along with a copy of the book, out in November. Choice of four exclusive prints: Birth Circle, Belly, Window and Hands. (Prints ship in September; book ships in November.)
Shannon’s award-winning titular photo series began as a documentation of midwife-led home births after much of the US went into lockdown in early March 2020; now it is recontextualized in book form, complete with a foreword by Angela Garbes, an artist Q&A with critic Gem Fletcher and a slew of never-before-seen images that together create a timeless meditation on this fundamental human experience.
Capturing the entire process of birth—the exhaustion along the way, the agony of the moment of, the surreal relief of the after and the lulls in between—Shannon offers a rare view of mothers, becoming.
About the artist:
Maggie Shannon is a photographer specializing in portrait and documentary work. She tells stories of small communities and their social rituals in order to elevate marginalized voices and build a more inclusive world. Her approach is rooted in honesty, empathy, and endless curiosity.
Hailing from Martha's Vineyard, Shannon received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in Photography, Video and Related Media. Shannon was selected as a 2018 PDN Emerging Photographer and was named one of Magnum's 30 under 30 (2014). She is a member of Women Photograph and her work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, Die Zeit, Wall Street Journal, Time, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, People and The New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Roy and their daughter Charlotte.
A collector’s bundle featuring an original, limited-edition signed 8.5”x11” print (on Canson Baryta Photographique II) from Maggie Shannon’s forthcoming Extreme Pain, Extreme Joy along with a copy of the book, out in November. Choice of four exclusive prints: Birth Circle, Belly, Window and Hands. (Prints ship in September; book ships in November.)
Shannon’s award-winning titular photo series began as a documentation of midwife-led home births after much of the US went into lockdown in early March 2020; now it is recontextualized in book form, complete with a foreword by Angela Garbes, an artist Q&A with critic Gem Fletcher and a slew of never-before-seen images that together create a timeless meditation on this fundamental human experience.
Capturing the entire process of birth—the exhaustion along the way, the agony of the moment of, the surreal relief of the after and the lulls in between—Shannon offers a rare view of mothers, becoming.
About the artist:
Maggie Shannon is a photographer specializing in portrait and documentary work. She tells stories of small communities and their social rituals in order to elevate marginalized voices and build a more inclusive world. Her approach is rooted in honesty, empathy, and endless curiosity.
Hailing from Martha's Vineyard, Shannon received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in Photography, Video and Related Media. Shannon was selected as a 2018 PDN Emerging Photographer and was named one of Magnum's 30 under 30 (2014). She is a member of Women Photograph and her work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, Die Zeit, Wall Street Journal, Time, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, People and The New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Roy and their daughter Charlotte.