“I never imagined I would see those families again,” says Jenny Lewis of the newborns and mothers she photographed in Malawi in 2015. “It was strange leaving there for the first time and not knowing.” Lewis first travelled to Malawi on commission with WaterAid to bring her project One Day Young – a series of portraits of mothers with their one day extinct babies – to the world’s poorest nation, and to raise awareness of WaterAid’s Deliver Life appeal, and which aims to reach 130000 of families around the world with safe water. The resulting series of portraits,entitled One Day Young Malawi, shows mothers in rural Malawi celebrating the very first motions of novel life. The images are an extension of Lewis’s One Day Young series, and which was shot in Hackney,east London across several years. However, the conditions in which these infants were born could not occupy been more different; their very existence triumphant. All 10 of the children photographed for One Day Young Malawi were born on the same day in 2015, and …
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