Τα παιδιά αλλάζουν μέρα με την μέρα και η καταγραφή τους έχει πάντα ενδιαφέρον. Στην χώρα μας συνηθίζεται τις περισσότερες φορές να συνδυάζουμε κυρίως την βάπτιση με μια φωτογραφική αποτύπωση της ιεροτελεστίας και της γιορτής που ακολουθεί, παράλληλα με την παρουσία της ευρύτερης οικογένειας . Όμως η πρώτη περίοδος της ζωής ενός παιδιού είναι κάτι ακόμα πιο ιδιαίτερο και ξεχωριστό, και το οποίο περνά πολύ γρήγορα, πριν ακόμα το συνειδητοποιήσουμε. Στην Αμερική και σε πολλές ευρωπαικές χώρες, η φωτογράφηση των νεογέννητων είναι κάτι που προγραμματίζεται με πολύ επιμέλεια . Από τη στιγμή που ένα παιδί γεννιέται, μέχρι και τον τρίτο μήνα ζωής του η φυσιογνωμία του και οι συνήθειες του είναι πολύ ιδιαίτερα και ο σύνδεσμος μας μαζί του χτίζεται κάθε δευτερόλεπτο που περνά. Είναι πραγματικά υπέροχο όταν ο φωτογραφικός φακός αιχμαλωτίζει για πάντα αυτή την μοναδική εμπειρία που ζούμε με το παιδί μας! Είναι πολύ ουσιαστικό να αποτυπώνονται τα δυνατά συναισθήματα που ζούμε , συναισθήματα πολύτιμα που δεν μπορούμε να εκφράσουμε με λέξεις…
Και είναι πολύ συγκινητικό να φανταστούμε το παιδί μας να ξεφυλλίζει ένα τέτοιο album με καλλιτεχνικές φωτογραφίες όταν μεγαλώσει…έναν πραγματικό θησαυρό αναμνήσεων από τις πρώτες του στιγμές.
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Every moment of a baby’s and, later on, of a child’s life is full of emotion and magic…
The feeling of the first days is unique…You start by watching with surprise this little angel lying fast asleep for ours…the soft touch of his Lilliputian hand on his mother’s chest…an indefinite smile…and a skin as smooth and fragile as silk…
The baby blinks his eyes and looks at you…it seems like you knew each other for years… You wonder if what you just saw was really a smile! He fits in your two palms and while growing up, he occupies the best form your hug has ever taken.
Moments of eternity that flow and fade away without you having the time to realize them.
And the time is running…the days are flying away and your tiny creature runs and wanders around the play ground… and there it is! The time has come for you to be separated with tears…the first day of school has arrived! It feels like waking up from a dream: when did all these happen?
To the photographer Zoe Gambieraki, who handles the photo shooting of children with great love, this issue is of exceptional artistic interest, for the feelings between parents and children, as well as the experience of the first days of maternity, represent really strong moments. These moments deserve to be shot with tenderness and sensitiveness, in order always to survive against the speed of time that condemns everything to silence. The photographer herself confesses that “the photos of my newborn son surprise me somehow ˙ they often bring tears in my eyes and some kind of unexpected serenity…I think that, as a grown up, he will feel exactly the same while looking at those images and realizing the pure love that connected us from the very first moment.”
The photo shoot of your children, and especially of your newborns, through a professional and artistic approach is an excellent idea, if you wish to record the sentimental bonds and that wonderful feeling which makes the childhood magical: innocence, eyes full of amazement, carefreeness, a true miracle that you live every day beyond the tiredness and the duties of a parent. The photo itself may keep this miracle alive in your heart forever.
When is the right moment for an artistic photo shoot of your children?
Children change day by day and, thus, recording their moments is always of great interest. In our country, it is habitual to combine the baptism with photos taken during the ceremony and the feast which follows it, in the presence of the whole family. However the first period of a child’s life is even more special and exceptional and yet it runs away before we even realize it. In America and many European countries, the parents organize their baby’s photo shoot with great care. From the very first moment of a child’s birth and up to its third month, its physiognomy and habits are very particular, and the bond between him and us is being built every single second. Isn’t it really wonderful when the camera lenses capture this unique experience, that we live with our child, and make it last forever? Isn’t very important to record those strong feelings that cannot be put into words…? And finally, isn’t it touching when picturing your child in the future leafing through such an album with artistic photos, such a real treasure full of memories from its first moments?
