
3rd Place Award in the “Black Lives Matter” category. Photo by Ann Owen, United Kingdom.

I'm Ann, a mother to two and a motherhood photographer.
I was born in Sweden, spent my teenage years in the states and in my mid twenties I ended up in London with plans to become a war photographer, I even had my ticket to Iraq in my hands. But the universe works in funny ways and had other plans for me. I ended up becoming an apprentice to a healer in the west end and undergoing an intensely personal journey of self-healing and discovery for several years. It was a journey of unravelling a lifetime of conditioning, facing my fears and insecurities and overcoming personal trauma & learning about the many ways in which my heart and mind work together. This experience changed and transformed me. It was an awakening.
When I became a mother I underwent yet another rebirth. Motherhood has brought me to where I feel I am meant to be and it has been the greatest gift I could ever ask for. Now my work is focused on motherhood and the family dynamic and I feel a deep calling to honour the entire process and to provide a lens by which the journey can be seen in all its vulnerable power.