Katja Heinemann

multimedia productions: our family: made in india

A documentary multimedia feature,

created for The Collection iPad Magazine:

Watch an excerpt of the 10 minute mini-doc.

View more still images here.

It takes two to start a family – or three, or even four. Take Rhonda and Gerry from Mesa, Arizona. The American couple tried conceiving a child for years – unsuccessfully. So they hired a surrogate mother in India. And they bought a donor egg. Their son Blaze has a father, a social mother, a surrogate mother and a biological mother. Now another surrogate in Mumbai is pregnant with twins – Blaze’s siblings.

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