Birth Undisturbed: Episode 8 - Call to Prayer

2020, 12 minutes

In the first moment this baby enters the world, the Adhan, the Muslim call for prayer, is whispered by the father into the right ear. "There is no deity but Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah." When done at the first possible moment, before examin

'Birth Undisturbed' is an award-winning fictional narrative series by British photographer Natalie Lennard. Travelling through the world and history to depict birth from ancient to modern, and squalid to famous, the series depicts stories of woman both real and imagined. Using images and video to examine current Western birth ideology, the artist strives to speak a new language by bringing key figureheads and writers from the realm of birth philosophy into cinematic and compelling stories.

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