Anne Geddes, Her Life, Babies and Photography

Anne Geddes was born in Australia in September, 1956 in a family of five girls and lived there until she was 17. At that time she dropped out of school and took a job in a hotel where she took her first photographs. These were not of babies but of the New Zealand landscapes. She was married at the age of 21 but that marriage did not last. Later she married Kel Geddes with whom she has two daughters.

Anne began photographing babies at the age of 27. One of her first photographs were rejected by a publisher because he thought you can't just photograph babies. At one point she even opened a clothing boutique. After moving to Hong Kong because of her husband's job, she became a professional children's photographer. She believes that babies are the right thing to photograph because they are cute and people enjoy looking a pictures of babies. Her first camera was not even a new one but she made do with it. The first sign of success for Anne was in 1993 when her and her husband published a commercial calendar. After this calendar, she started to invade the greeting card market. Her first pictures published were of babies in costumes.

Along with the calendars and greeting cards, she also has stationary and has published books. Her books have been a great success with them being published in no less than 50 countries. She has received awards in the field of photography and has even had her photographs on postage stamps in France.

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