Former Preemie Babies Pose With Photos of Themselves as Infants
After Canadian photographer Red Méthot‘s children were born prematurely, he found a way to offer hope to other parents in the same situation.
Méthot embarked on a photo series called “Les Prémas” (“The Preemies”), showing people with photos of themselves as tiny, premature infants.
“It’s a big message of hope to parents going through this tough time,” Méthot told The Huffington Post. “I wanted the pictures to say: Hey, look, they’ve also been there and look how awesome they are now… I decided to make pictures that I would have wanted to see when my first-born child was at the hospital for many long weeks.”
Méthot posed each person, many of them children, with a framed black and white photograph of themselves as babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
“This album shows portraits of people who were born prematurely [and] sometimes had a difficult journey in early life,” reads a translation of the description on Méthot’s Facebook album. “You can see what they have become.”
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Visit Méthot’s Facebook page or website for more information.
Melissa McGlensey is the former News Editor at The Mighty. Her writing can also be seen in Ms. Magazine, on the Ms.Magazine blog and in The Huffington Post’s Good News, Comedy and Impact sections. Melissa is also a New York City comedian who does sketch, improv and stand up. She is passionate about social justice, politics, Thai food, literature, disability rights and more. She is currently in a long-distance relationship with her cat, Sneakers, who lives in California. You can follow her on twitter at @OhHeyMeliss.
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