Art or Indecent Exposure? In the eye of the beholder

In a disturbing article, UK's tabloid The Sun writes that "paedophiles using mobile camera phones snapped full-frontal images of tot Madeleine Schneider in the exhibition by her photographer mum Betsy" - and are bragging about it; “They'll be on the web by the end of the day — 10,000 copies of them.”

Entitled "An Exhibition of Photographs Exploring Childhood", at the The.Spitz Gallery in east London, four artists explore the experience of childhood.

"The gallery removed 189 photos of Madeleine from the age of nine weeks to five years after people were seen copying them. Incredibly, the tot's mum Betsy, 38, had already posted some of the pictures on her own website. She removed them — but was last night considering putting them BACK on the internet."

The story is even more unsettling as in a related article published in The Guardian, Betsy Schneider revealed that she had been arrested after having pictures of a naked Madeleine developed in a laboratory in Soho, but had been released without charge".

emily | 2:21 PM | Porn, Sexting and Dark Side of MMS |
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