The Power of Love and the Art of Midwifery

Elisabeth Ubbe is a Swedish award-winning photographer, and registered nurse midwife, focusing on women’s issues, such as empowering birth, female genital mutilation, breastfeeding and breast cancer. Her mission is to create photographs that empower the person on them, as well as, have an empowering effect on those who see them. She achieves this by building meaningful relationships with the people she photographs and making sure she is well informed about the issues she addresses. Elisabeth has been able to penetrate complex and, often, inaccessible and isolated environments in order to extract authentic and unbiased women’s stories. She has been presenting her work at the United Nations’ Women’s Conference in New York in 2018, 2019 and 2021.

In The Power of Love exhibition, she explores different dimensions of love as part of birth and creates art to convey what she has discovered.