A BABY bump is 'in', judging by the number of pregnant celebrities who are baring it all on the front covers of magazines. And they seem to have inspired local women to do so too.
There are now photographers here who specialise in artistic maternity shoots, and they tell The New Paper that the requests keep coming in on a daily basis.
JJ Photography Jothy John, 44, who does newborn and maternity photography, says business has gone up.
On average, he gets five or six enquiries a day and out of that number, one or two would ask for maternity shoots.
And all of them ask to pose nude or semi-nude, he says.
The father of two reckons that he has seen a 20% increase in the maternity-shoot bit of his business.
Similarly, photographer Hart Tan, 33, the founder of Tomato Photo, has seen a rise in requests for maternity shoots, so much so that he has to turn some down.
He says: “The request for maternity shoots is still high. We have to turn some of the requests down due to the high volume.”
Last year, he did about 30 maternity shoots a month, and now he does about 20 such shoots a month.
Natasha Mak-Levrion, a Singaporean, is one of those who opted for a fully nude shoot. She has done it not once, but twice.
The first time was when she was pregnant with her first daughter in 2010.
And just two months ago, she did another one when she was pregnant with her second child, also a girl.
The 36-year-old director of a consulting company told The New Paper: “I want something to remember and to capture that moment.”
While most mothers do such shoots only when they are pregnant with their first child, Mrs Mak-Levrion wants to ensure that she is fair to both her kids.
She adds: “My first daughter can participate (in the photoshoot) too.”
The experience wasn’t awkward at all and her husband, who is French, was there too, she says.
“It was very technical, such as ‘you pose like this, like that’ and it was very tastefully done,” she says.
She has put those photographs up on her bedroom wall and used one– with her clothed – on her birth announcement card. (The New Paper)
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