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Sea Birth by Michael Appelt

The photographer Michael Appelt has accompanied a sea birth (which is illegal in Russia) with his camera and has captured moments of overwhelming joy as well as those of intense pain. Anxiety and hope, love and despair are just one shutter click apart.