When someone snapped a shot of a woman breastfeeding in public, posted the photo online without her permission and called her a tramp, it sparked a nationwide outrage and a host of discussions in the media. Those discussions revealed something more sinister than the initial public outcry, views that likened breastfeeding in public to smoking in public, for example. I decided to dig a little deeper and speak to women about their negative experiences, one mum reported ‘Someone once said to me ‘you wouldn’t piss in the street so why are you breastfeeding here?’ So in support of mothers and their legal right to feed their children in public, here’s the beginnings of my Breastfeeding Portraits series.

 

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