Portraits of Expecting and Empty Nest Parents

© Dona Schwartz

Photographer Dona Schwartz, a professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, has an interesting pair of photo projects titled “On the Nest” and “Empty Nesters“. The first shows portraits of expecting parents as they prepare to welcome a new member of the family. The second features portraits of parents who are coping with an empty house after their children have grown up and moved out.

© Dona Schwartz

© Dona Schwartz

The first three images showed expecting parents. Here are a couple of photographs of empty nesters:

© Dona Schwartz
© Dona Schwartz

On the Nest and Empty Nesters by Dona Schwartz (via NYTimes)


Image credits: Photographs by Dona Schwartz and used with permission

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