Based in Westbury, photographer Shannon Jenkins is creating art for a cause.

A certified and award-winning newborn photographer, Shannon is creating a coffee table book of Tasmanian babies to raise money and awareness for the Miracle Babies Foundation. 

Miracle Babies Foundation is Australia’s leading organisation supporting premature and sick newborns, their families and the hospitals that care for them.

Every year in Australia, around 48,000 newborn babies require the help of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or Special Care Nursery (SCN).

Twenty-seven thousand of these babies are born premature, and up to 1,000 babies lose their fight for life.

Shannon experienced the foundation’s support first-hand when her twins relied on the aid of a NICU to support them early on. 

She plans to do 50 portrait sessions of babies aged up to three years old.

Shannon is offering these sessions at a discount rate of just $100, and the participants will be featured in the hardcover book. 

If you’re a parent of a child - or children! - under three, make sure you go to www.babyjoyart.com/tassie-beanie-babes to fill out the form and secure your spot. 

You’ll be supporting a very worthwhile cause and come away with memories and photos of your little ones to cherish forever. 

A project like this is a big undertaking, so if you or your business would like to support the Tassie Beanie Babes project, there is an opportunity for your name or logo to appear on a sponsors’ page. 

Contact Shannon via email at yourjoyart@gmail.comto join the cause.