It was in 2019 that Anamika Singh realised she’d like to focus on capturing mothers as the subject of her photographs. When a skin care brand approached her to shoot a campaign that required her to  follow mothers before, during and after birth, she found herself closer to her calling. As she found herself in a OT, watching a baby born, she knew this was special. “I had been pursuing documentary-style photography, and this… well, what’s more special than documenting the beginning of a new life,” says Singh, 40, a resident of Thane. The chemical engineer, who grew up in Patna, taught herself photography when she quit her job in 2011 to take care of her son. 

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