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Ennis photogapher, Louise Brooks is one of two co-ordinators in Ireland with Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep (NILMDTS). Louise is responsible for recruiting and training the foundation’s photographers and digital retouch artists throughout the country and also carries out the sensitive assignments in Clare, Limerick and Galway. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep is a not-for-profit organisation set up in 2005 by US photographer and author, Sandy Puc. It offers bereaved, or soon to be bereaved, parents the gift of the services of a professional photographer to create lasting images of their baby. When a family contacts the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation, they are offered the services of an affiliated professional photographer, who will go to their home or the hospital and conduct a sensitive portrait session. The photographs are considered an important step in a family’s healing process and the service is provided free of charge. According to Brid Shine, a specialist bereavement midwife …
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