Fotografiska Talks: Emilia Bergmark-Jiménez, To Be Born and to Give Birth

Since 2021, Emilia Bergmark-Jiménez has been photographing births in Sweden, each with its own unique circumstances and process. Fotografiska's exhibition To Be Born and to Give Birth shows birth in every stage, a journey into the most intimate space and greatest moment of humans, a place where everything changes and the clock restarts. But it is also a journey into Emilia herself, a baptism through the amniotic fluid and a reckoning with the fear of birth, both er own fear and society's. A story about the existential aspect of delivering a child and about becoming and being human.

The podcast is hosted by Fotografiska guide, Elo Aun.

EMILIA BERGMARK-JIMÉNEZ To Be Born and to Give Birth , October 10, 2025– March 8, 2026

Where do we go to bring our children home? In every birth, there is a moment when the birthing person seems to vanish – no longer a human being, but an immeasurable force of nature. Emilia Bergmark-Jiménez’s exhibition To Be Born and To Give Birth offers a raw, honest, and intimate look at the moments where both life and parenthood begin. Accompanying the photographs are the artist’s personal reflections, weaving together documentary images with philosophical questions about life’s beginnings, primal forces, and the becoming of a parent.