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    From here to maternity

    Apr 02, 2019 4 minutes

    Nigel Atherton asked one of the UK’s leading practitioners, Kristina Mack, to share her secrets

    One morning in 2017, Essex-based baby photographer Kristina Mack woke up to find about a dozen emails from pregnant women enquiring about maternity shoots with their bumps. Which was odd because she hadn’t had any queries at all during the previous few months. The reason, she soon discovered, is that the previous day one of the world’s most famous pop divas, Beyonce, had posted a picture of her own pregnancy bump on Instagram – an image that went on to become the platform’s most ‘liked’ picture of the year (11.2 million, so far).

    ‘Instagram has been very influential in

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