Baby love

Ten years ago few considered newborn babies to be a major genre for photographers. Blotchy and wrinkled, they spend most of their time curled up asleep. Better to wait till they’re old enough to sit up and smile. But then, along came Instagram and celebrity photoshoots. Described by Vogue as a ‘distinctly millennial phenomenon’, newborn photography is a fast-growing field which photographers with their fingers on the pulse of social trends have been quick to capitalise on.

Kristina Mack of Essex-based Tiny Posers is one of those photographers. As well as running her own successful photo studio, she also holds workshops around the country for other aspiring newborn and maternity photographers, at which Kristina explains to her students the various ways in which newborn photography differs.

‘The first thing is that timing is very important with newborns,’ explains Kristina, ‘because they lose that womb-like curve after two weeks or so. Also they