About

When you choose to have me at your birth, you’re getting more than just a birth photographer. For me, birth work is an all-consuming passion and my greatest source of joy. I’ve always known that what I do should have a deeper purpose, feel sacred, and connected to a higher pursuit. I’m driven by this fire that’s alive inside of me for birth photography; this is something I was born to do.

Natalie Broders is an international award winning birth photographer in Portland, Oregon. In addition to birth photography, she also offers birth films, maternity and newborn photography, and birth doula support. She lives on a farm with her husband and 2 kids. They raise chickens and love to garden. Natalie loves babywearing, cloth diapering and is passionate about her work as an advocate for birthing people as a labor and birth doula. She had both her babies unmedicated, one at a birth center and her second baby was born at home, in water.

Photo | Video | Doula

Awards

• Overall Winner, Birth Photographer of the Year 2023
• Best in Labor: Documentary, IAPBP 2025
• Top 10%, IAPBP 2025
• Top 20, Birth Photographer of the Year 2024
• Best in Labor: Documentary, IAPBP 2024
• Gold, Everyday Birth Magazine 2024
• Silver Distinction, Birth Photographer of the Year 2024
• Gold, Birth Photographer of the Year 2023
• 1st Place, Birth Becomes You 2023
• Gold, SHINE Photo Awards 2023
• 1st Place, Everyday Birth Magazine Photo Competition, 2022
• Finalist, Documentary Family Awards 2022
• Honorable Mention, Birth & Beyond Photography Awards 2022
• Silver, Birth Photographer of the Year 2021
• Winner, Documentary Family Awards 2020
• Winner, Birth Becomes Her 2019

Location

Portland, Oregon, United States