Little Urchins - underwater photography of children

December 20, 2005 6:57 AM

Little Urchins is a small collection of photographs of babies underwater by Zena Holloway. Gallery 1. Gallery 2.
posted by quiet (16 comments total)

They photoshopped out the turds, I guess.
posted by fleetmouse at 7:14 AM on December 20, 2005

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

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

And I'll second HuronBob on the Mass Skinnydipping Initiative (MSI).
posted by saladin at 7:25 AM on December 20, 2005

Urgh. Anne Geddes Hell.
posted by londonmark at 7:32 AM on December 20, 2005

londonmark: Eew! That is downright scatalogical.
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

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

clf: she's in the UK, so she's probably OK.
posted by quiet at 8:51 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

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

Obligatory.

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

Mmmmmmmmmmmm, uni.
posted by fixedgear at 1:46 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

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