Hi there, i’m Carmen Bridgewater.
I am a queer Black woman, wife, mother, and birth photographer from the Midwest creating provocative art below the Mason Dixon line. In 2016, I graduated from Baylor University with an Entrepreneurship degree and a Leadership minor. In the same year, I met my husband and got engaged on Christmas Day at my mother-in-laws resting place.
I was the project manager to Clint Harp at Harp Design Co. for 4 years (do you super love HGTV’s Fixer Upper?) before moving to Fort Worth and giving birth to our daughter, Norah.
Why I do what I do - My work aims to highlight the fact that Black women have magical birthing experiences in light of the harrowing statistics that face us. I often photograph Black women with an all-Black birth team and supportive partners. I love that I am able to show how cultural sensitivity alters these profound experiences for the good.
I draw inspiration from the diaspora - how we interact with the world around us and vice versa; how we both challenge societal views of us as well as reclaim negative stereotypes as our own. I have no ulterior motive when photographing these families which leads to an unaltered theme throughout my work. My art is boldly political and beautifully subversive.
