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This looks to me likekids playing adult games - almost as if they are trying to imitate a scene from a movie. In this it has succeeded for me, if it is meant to look 'natural' then for me it is way off.

I won't say this is kiddie porn but it certainly does push up the boundaries of childhood, growing up, finding roles etc

Too Good

My feelings coincide more with Mike and Amy-perhaps shame on me. And yet I have seen this kind of posturing with kids, especially preteens. I think it is well done, well seen, and might make an interesting story. To me, it is anything but "nice." It is way too deep to be "nice." There is so much going on. Congrats,

I find this image to be explotation of pre-pubescent children, the implied message to me is clear whether deliberate or not. In short I find your photograph objectionable and disturbing. I guess anything goes here at photo.net.

Their posing and expressions have been learned or taught, probably through exposure to media. 

I would also loose the post processing gimmick, this technique is way over used these days.

 

 

The reactions to this photograph are almost as interesting as the photograph itself. 

 

Looking at this image is like browsing through a copy of Vanity Fair and coming across a Guess or a Jil Sander ad...as shot by Sally Mann.  All that's missing is a designer logo across the bottom.  One could look at it as exploitive, or one could take the opposite tack and view it as a condemnation of a culture that unwittingly foists the external trappings of young adulthood on tweens like these without the benefit of the emotional and sexual maturity that should accompany those trappings.  The poses and processing are perfectly suited to the style of this image.  If the subjects were in their early twenties it would be a commercial fashion shot.  But they're not, and it isn't, and that is what is so disturbing about this photograph.  Yet "disturbing" is not necessarily a bad thing for an image to be.  Significant photography is not always about the pretty, the safe, and the comfortable (if, in fact, it ever is).