MetaFilter posts tagged with Children and photography

Anna Skladmann's Little Adults

chunking express — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:26:59 -0800

Anna Skladmann's Little Adults. Photographs of the children of the ultra-rich in Russia.

Child labor in Bangladesh

Joe Beese — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:51:11 -0800

Child labor in Bangladesh

Darling Divas

Joe Beese — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:33:32 -0800

"Darling Divas" by Colby Katz. [Click on "Multimedia", then click on "Darling Divas". May be NSFW.]

Bill Henson's censored photographic exhibition.

robotot — Sun, 25 May 2008 02:06:33 -0800

Photographs of esteemed Sydney artist Bill Henson have been removed by police from the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, and the debate over art vs pornography vs pedophilia heats up in Sydney this week. Some of the debate is quite measured and intelligent while other sides are descending to unruly levels. Even Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has something to say about the whole debacle. Unfortunately the offending artworks have been removed from both the gallery's website and walls, so we can not judge for ourselves. Once again we'll have to leave it up to the courts to decide.

Inner City Youth, London

tpl1212 — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:24:34 -0800

Inner City Youth, London "In 2002, Simon Wheatley began photographing London's publich housing developments...and was able to obtain a level of intimacy with his subjects that provides a true picture of the daunting project of growing up in the intimate confines of drug use, societal neglect, and poverty." This (Flash-based) narrated slideshow features Wheatley's work, and is a look at the culture...and also the music (grime) "as an artistic response to the place and circumstance, an expression of the violence, bleakness, and neglect..." (via Future Feeder)

Dreams of Flying

Robot Johnny — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:25:44 -0800

Dreams of Flying. Whimsical photographs by Jan Von Holleben.

Empowering Children Through the Art of Photography

fenriq — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:14:10 -0800

Kids with Cameras (warning, embedded QT video in link)
With an Oscar Nominated documentary, Born into Brothels, under her belt, Z ana Briski's spinoff project, Kids with Cameras, teaches children growing up in difficult circumstances the art and skills of photography to empower them to appreciate the beauty and dignity of their own expression.
With projects in Calcutta, Haiti, Jerusalem and Cairo, they send great photographers to lead workshops, the children are given inexpensive 35mm cameras to capture whatever they choose and then the children's pi ct ur es are shown (and sold) around the world through exhibits, books and film.

not your usual tourist photographs

pyramid termite — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 05:37:46 -0800

a visitor to rio takes a bunch of disposable cameras and hands them out to children in the favela of rocinha to take pictures of their lives (via k5) (scroll down)

The Rwanda Project

Coop — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 13:36:15 -0800

The Rwanda Project It began as a photographic workshop in 2000 for child survivors of the Rwanda genocide. Using disposable cameras, the children originally took pictures for themselves and to share with others, exploring their community, and finding beauty as the country struggles to rebuild via Jonny Baker

room 101

The Jesse Helms — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 19:28:39 -0800

A crackdown in Texas. America - land of the free. And to guarantee that freedom, everyone has to be constantly watchful. Like the photo store clerk from Eckerd who dutifully reported a Peruvian-born couple's lewd shots of their infants to the Richardson (Dallas/Texas suburbs) police. The photos showed the parents' two infants bathing naked, lying together in bed with their mother (again naked) and the 1-year-old Rodrigo suckling his mother's (naked) breast. So the couple was arrested -- the maximum prison sentence for the crime in question being 20 years -- and the children taken away. (verbatim k5)

Carlos Quevedo — Sat, 09 Nov 2002 18:50:29 -0800

Is this naturism, photography or soft-core child pornography? If you search for photographers like Sally Mann or Jock Sturges you'll come across this entirely legitimate purveyor of naturist books and videos. In the Fifties and Sixties nudist magazines, like Health and Efficiency, were an excuse for looking at naked bodies. Now that porn is legal, have nudist publications made a comeback as an excuse for looking at photographs of naked children? Their website is itself well concealed - the front page looks innocent enough but, the further you click into it, the more unsettling it becomes. Or are we all becoming to paranoid for our own good? (I'd say NSFW)

Degaz — Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:59:04 -0800

I've always been fascinated with the idea of having a photographic memory. They have products saying you can train yourself but I don't buy it. Can you really train your kid to have a photographic mind before age 6? I'm curious how many Mefites have snapshot memories.

pedantic — Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:18:32 -0800

"I took the picture of Kelly's butt, I saw she was naked and I took it." Theresa King, Photographer, Age 5.

taz — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:08:25 -0800

The Russian Avant-Garde Book is an online version of the MoMA exhibit, featuring 112 books originally published in Russia during the intensely creative period between 1910 and 1934, before Stalin outlawed any style but social realism. The site is separated into three chronological themes and includes examples of futurist works, constructivist graphic design, children's books, propaganda, photography and photomontage, revolutionary imagery, architecture and industry, war themes, folk art and judaica...

luser — Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:18:04 -0800

Children's lives insufficiently documented. Video-shunning parent ostracized, jailed. I agree with this parent. Constantly taping your child, it does sometimes feel as if you're sacrificing actually being in the moment to capturing the moment, and this during some of the best "moments" of your child's life. If my understanding of old age is correct, however, memories are all you have. So I'm trying to nail me some shit down, for rocking chair days.

pracowity — Sat, 10 Mar 2001 06:19:38 -0800

Scotland Yard raids Saatchi Gallery over complaints of child pornography in Tierney Gearon show - Why? Gearon, a former fashion model turned art photographer, has included in the show a couple of pictures of her children naked. "In one the two children are wearing theatrical masks while in the other her son is urinating in the snow." Gearon sees nothing wrong with her pictures, but apparently they make some people a little nervous.