A Home Birth in Taipei | Documentary Birth Photography
I often say that birth is one of my favorite family stories to photograph. Not only is it a raw, intimate, beautiful story that’s perfectly suited to documentary-style photography (can you imagine someone trying to pose during a contraction?), but it’s also an event that can’t be repeated and where EVERYONE tells me they wish they had more photos. I get that for many (and I would have been in this category once upon a time), it sounds sort of weird to bring in a photographer for a birth. But birth is funny in that it’s one of the most pivotal, transformative experiences of our lives and our brains tend to gloss over and forget the details. I would give anything to have more photos of my kids’ births, and there’s no going back or using AI to recreate them.
Saying Goodbye to Taipei | A Documentary Family Photography Session at Home and Tienmu Sports Park
Families often want to arrange a documentary family photography session when it’s almost time to leave Taipei. While many people like more traditional, posed family photoshoots, when people realize that documentary family photography allows them to capture the details of their life story in Taiwan—their favorite gelato shop, their regular convenience store stop, the park they go to after school—it becomes important to them to document their time here before it’s too late.
Documentary Family Photography at Dihua Street in Taipei
If a family really wants to do Dihua Street, though, the walking and shopping trap can be avoided with some intention. Dihua Street is a meaningful place for the family in the photos below, so we discussed how the best way to approach Dihua Street in a documentary family photography session is to do all the things. I mean really explore it: get the shaved ice, try the stinky tofu, go in the temple, look through the stalls in the fabric market. And this beautiful, fun family took that to heart! We tasted, smelled, saw, and touched Dihua Street, followed by the Ningxia Night Market.