Photographer is making child abuse an ‘art’

WE all know the expression stealing candy from a baby, and we all know it’s wrong. But someone ought to tell photographer Jill Greenberg whose new exhibition in LA makes ‘art’ out of, well, child abuse.

Or so goes the argument of those who’d like to see Greenberg’s End Time exhibition closed down. Her 27 images consist of photographs of toddlers stripped of all apparent clothing, bawling their eyes out in a state of distress. The main problem is Greenberg provoked the distress herself — mostly by presenting the children with a lolly pop which she then whisked away. Then she set to work photographing the result.

You don’t need to be a professor of ethics to know there’s something seriously questionable about her practice.