GALLERIES | THEN & NOW

A collection of portraits Anne created for her
autobiography A Labor of Love, presenting the babies
from some of her original images 'as they are today'...

THEN & NOW | JACK HOLDING MANEESHA

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"Maneesha is the smallest baby I have ever photographed...

She was born prematurely at twenty-eight weeks’ gestation, weighing 680 grams (a little under 1.5 lbs), and was just about to leave hospital after her long stay...

Jack holding Maneesha, 1993.
As seen in Anne’s best-selling coffee-table book
Until Now.

I next photographed Maneesha when she was a very healthy four-year-old. I wanted an updated photo of her for my book, Until Now to show what wonderful progress she had made since she left hospital...

Maneesha at age 4, in 1998. As seen in Until Now.

Maneesha at age 12, in 2006.
As seen in Anne’s autobiography A Labor of Love.

As I was preparing for this book [A Labor of Love], I thought it would be wonderful to show Maneesha as she is today [2006], a beautiful twelve-year-old. I recently asked her how she felt now, looking at the photograph of herself when she was so tiny and whether she would like to write something personal for A Labor of Love... " Click here to read Maneesha's letter to Anne.

Text taken from Anne's autobiography; A Labor of Love.

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