‘I’ve had tears streaming down my face when photographing a child’s birth’

Claire Wilson from Arklow captures the moment a baby is born with her camera and says her work is both demanding and deeply moving

Claire Wilson says it takes a while to come down after photographing a child being born. Photo: Tony Gavin

Katie Byrne

“Child birth is one of the most powerfully emotional things you can photograph.

I’ve been doing it for almost 10 years now and I still get emotional during the final stages of labour. I was already photographing newborns in 2013 when I started to see some really powerful images of birth photography coming out of America and Australia.