Little Urchins - underwater photography of children
December 20, 2005 6:57 AM Subscribe
Little Urchins is a small collection of photographs of babies underwater by Zena Holloway. Gallery 1. Gallery 2.
sure, like all those baby butts don't make this NSFW!
I'm always amazed by these kind of photos. They inevitably reinforce for me the concept of human beings as a clean slate when they are born. No fears, no prejudices, no hate, no politics, with an ability to adapt and find the joy in almost everything if given the opportunity..
Then we make them afraid of the water, afraid of flying, afraid of snakes, afraid of republicans, afraid of democrats, afraid of Muslims, afraid of catholics, afraid of whites, afraid of blacks, afraid of almost everything except those things that their parents weren't afraid of...
Let's all just get naked and jump in the water... perhaps then things will be OK again!
posted by HuronBob at 7:20 AM on December 20, 2005
I'm always amazed by these kind of photos. They inevitably reinforce for me the concept of human beings as a clean slate when they are born. No fears, no prejudices, no hate, no politics, with an ability to adapt and find the joy in almost everything if given the opportunity..
Then we make them afraid of the water, afraid of flying, afraid of snakes, afraid of republicans, afraid of democrats, afraid of Muslims, afraid of catholics, afraid of whites, afraid of blacks, afraid of almost everything except those things that their parents weren't afraid of...
Let's all just get naked and jump in the water... perhaps then things will be OK again!
posted by HuronBob at 7:20 AM on December 20, 2005
Boy are those adorable. And weird. Babies somehow look even cuter and even more alien underwater.
Great post, quiet!
Also, careful, some images may be NSFW.
posted by saladin at 7:21 AM on December 20, 2005
Great post, quiet!
Also, careful, some images may be NSFW.
posted by saladin at 7:21 AM on December 20, 2005
And I'll second HuronBob on the Mass Skinnydipping Initiative (MSI).
posted by saladin at 7:25 AM on December 20, 2005
posted by saladin at 7:25 AM on December 20, 2005
londonmark: Eew! That is downright scatalogical.
posted by StickyCarpet at 7:44 AM on December 20, 2005
posted by StickyCarpet at 7:44 AM on December 20, 2005
Oh. It loads a random picture. The first one I got looked like a baby being pooped out of a flower.
posted by StickyCarpet at 8:19 AM on December 20, 2005
posted by StickyCarpet at 8:19 AM on December 20, 2005
Good thing the photographer didn't develop these at WalMart, or she'd be on a sex offender list as a pedophile right now. Wasn't another photographer prosecuted for taking art pictures of her own kids in a pool a few years back?
posted by caution live frogs at 8:24 AM on December 20, 2005
posted by caution live frogs at 8:24 AM on December 20, 2005
Good thing the photographer didn't develop these at WalMart, or she'd be on a sex offender list as a pedophile right now.
I'm wiping my hard drive as we speak.
The last thing I want to do is take my computer in for repair, a la Gary Glitter, only to find the National Crime Squad awaiting me when I return to pick it up.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 10:02 AM on December 20, 2005
I'm wiping my hard drive as we speak.
The last thing I want to do is take my computer in for repair, a la Gary Glitter, only to find the National Crime Squad awaiting me when I return to pick it up.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 10:02 AM on December 20, 2005
Her other work is pretty fantastic - check it at her site. Some may be nsfw.
posted by redbeard at 10:34 AM on December 20, 2005
posted by redbeard at 10:34 AM on December 20, 2005
Obligatory.
Also, browser resize warning on redbeard's link.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 11:08 AM on December 20, 2005
Also, browser resize warning on redbeard's link.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 11:08 AM on December 20, 2005
Something about drowning babies doesn't appeal to me.
posted by parallax7d at 1:02 PM on December 20, 2005
posted by parallax7d at 1:02 PM on December 20, 2005
So babies are smart enough to not try and breathe when submerged? I guess I have to give them more credit, then.
posted by cusack at 2:13 PM on December 20, 2005
posted by cusack at 2:13 PM on December 20, 2005
When my son was an infant, we tried these type of swimming classes. He was having *none* of it. Heh.
posted by dejah420 at 3:25 PM on December 20, 2005
posted by dejah420 at 3:25 PM on December 20, 2005
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