Perfect Instafeeds are so 2017

#pinetreeforestfamilyshootsmustfall - let's look at another photographer experimenting with new ways to capture what parenthood looks like.

Image: Stephanie Woodward

How many of us have found ourselves trying to capture the perfect family snap by taming the chaos? You screaming wildly for your brood to fall in line, stop picking their noses, stand still and just wait three damn seconds for the camera to do its thing before they are free to continue trying to kill each other. And the result…

A perfect snap of your family – all cherubic smiles, matching outfits, sweet love and just enough teeth and eye wrinkles to make the adults look as if life is one big orgasm of amazingness.

Puh…anyone else feel like it’s time for a new type of family photo, the one that captures family life in motion, not freeze-framed for a moment of make-believe, that no-one will remember?

Well, one mom, and professional photographer, is doing just that.

Meet Stephanie Woodward a photographer and filmmaker from Salt Lake City, Utah in the US, who is trying to give her clients a gentler perspective on their lives, by ditching perfection and embracing meaning.

Stephanie says, “I want to show you that you are enough. Your life is enough. Just the way it is.”

She has combined her talent for photography with her talent for finding the magic in the everyday. Because these little bits of magic of the things we as parents will want to remember. Things like scraped knees, mud pies, tears, grubby faces, messy homes and the tender yet mundane interactions between members of families.

And seeing as you all now have an extension on the deadline for entries for Parenty’s Photography Competition, check out Stephanie’s work below and maybe you will be struck with the inspiration for how you can show us what parenthood looks like for you. Entries close at 23:59 on Sunday the 10th November 2019, and believe us the prizes are so totally worth it with a combined value of R26 550.