Anyone else find this photo disturbing?
I scoured the Reddit search bar prior to posting this, but couldn’t find any posts that matched my keywords. I’ve only seen this particular picture a couple of times. It took me a while to find it on Google, but I kept looking because I remembered feeling disturbed by it.
Could it be a completely innocent photo? Sure.
Is it something I would consider normal? No.
It looks like an advertisement to me. If I was a father, I’d never feel comfortable with my child posing on my belt this way.
If I was a photographer, I’d suggest another pose, or at least a fatherly hand on her shoulder, along with her smiling, as opposed to what could be construed as… well… a more “adult” expression.
If I was the mother, I’d reconsider having it printed.
This photo seems to be part of a family photo shoot done on the same day. But all of the photos in this set make the children appear serious and sexualized. I can understand that this may have been the photographer’s “vision”. Maybe the parents weren’t necessarily onboard with it.
However, as a parent, I think I would’ve redirected the shoot to something more kid-friendly. I think most of us can agree that neither Patsy nor John were timid people.
Is it evidence of some egregious act? No. But it does raise eyebrows for me.
I scoured the Reddit search bar prior to posting this, but couldn’t find any posts that matched my keywords. I’ve only seen this particular picture a couple of times. It took me a while to find it on Google, but I kept looking because I remembered feeling disturbed by it.
Could it be a completely innocent photo? Sure.
Is it something I would consider normal? No.
It looks like an advertisement to me. If I was a father, I’d never feel comfortable with my child posing on my belt this way.
If I was a photographer, I’d suggest another pose, or at least a fatherly hand on her shoulder, along with her smiling, as opposed to what could be construed as… well… a more “adult” expression.
If I was the mother, I’d reconsider having it printed.
This photo seems to be part of a family photo shoot done on the same day. But all of the photos in this set make the children appear serious and sexualized. I can understand that this may have been the photographer’s “vision”. Maybe the parents weren’t necessarily onboard with it.
However, as a parent, I think I would’ve redirected the shoot to something more kid-friendly. I think most of us can agree that neither Patsy nor John were timid people.
Is it evidence of some egregious act? No. But it does raise eyebrows for me.