FASHION-ISH

Olivia Bolles, aka Olivia Bee, is a 15-year-old photographer from Portland, Oregon. These photos are from her “fashion-ish” and “lovers” series. Her videos are also quite impressive.

http://www.oliviabee.com/

CHILDISH CREEP

I came across this photographer Anna Hurtig on Onexposure, and I really loved her creepy/moody child portraits. Too many photographs of children are cutesy and boring, so I like seeing a photographer be a little more creative with their subject matter.

http://www.annahurtig.com/

ALBINO BALBINO

Albino siblings Esthefany Caroline (l) and Kauan Fernandes (r) play with their cousin Taina (c) outside their home in the V9 slum of Olinda, in the northeastern state of Pernambuco. Three of five of the Fernandes family's children are albinos, which according to genetics professor Valdir Balbino of the Federal University of Pernambuco is a very rare occurrence concidering the parents and two children are dark-skinned Afro-Brazilians.

http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2009/08/31/editors-choice-best-photos/

THE FAMILY AND THE LAND

Last year I visited the exhibition "The Family and the Land" of Sally Mann in The Hague. Mann's portraits of her children offer the bliss and the gloom of childhood. Naked, bruised, defiant these unsanitized portrayals of youth incited a fair amount of controversy and censorship. In response to claims of child pornography, exploitation, or parental neglect, Mann simply defended her work as the perspective of motherhood.

exhibition: The Family and the Land, Sally Mann (Fotomuseum Den Haag)