This is Sunny posting today on the Blog! Some weeks ago I had this small side project and we’re super happy to be sharing some photos with you.
For a while Robert and I have shared about the same amount of responsibility in ‘Robert Oberg Weddings.’ Pretty much all the communication with clients, scheduling, business tasks, as well as the shooting and editing (both photography and films) is the result of both our efforts. I have been on charge on some weddings by myself, and outside weddings I have also worked along Robert on some commercial projects.
Still, I believe this may be the very first time I take a non-wedding photography project on my own.
I had my first photo camera back in 2012. It was a Canonet Ql17 that Robert gave me as a gift when we were dating. I named the camera “Mr. Forest,” but I only went through 3 rolls of film and that was it for me. I just wasn’t interested. Years later, however, photography found me. I realized its meaning and value to me. Since then I just can’t ignore it in my every day. It brings me so much joy and always surprises me.
To be honest, I knew that this project involved a bit of a risk – in a way that is unique to 2020 & 2021. I mean, here in Mexico the pandemic was (and is) still going strong. Hospitals are definitely the kind of place you want to avoid, but I just couldn’t refuse this special opportunity. Getting access alone was very difficult, especially with all the restrictions.
I saw this as a new experience, and I decided to go for it.
I am still so happy I was able to do this project. Really. In the end, I did end up sick and locked down at home for two weeks after the shoot… but it was so worth it. Doing this was so meaningful and personal to me.
Robert and I are always looking for the way to personally connect with what we shoot. For me, these photos are not only images. I can relate to them just as if they were memories from my own past. I think of my own mom giving me birth. I can imagine the joy of my dad. How amazing it is to see the family love that grows with the arrival of a new life.
I hope some of my emotions and thoughts can come through these images. I look at them and they still speak so much to me.
