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May 30, 2013

This What It Looks Like When You Give Sweets To Children, And Then Take Them Away [GALLERY]

Capturing human emotion can always be tricky, especially if the subjects are children. How would one get the children to express their emotions? Photographer Jill Greenberg used this tactic: give the child candy then quickly snatch it away from them.

Photographer Jill Greenberg managed to capture these children’s emotions by giving them candy and then taking it away from them. The jury is still out on whether Greenberg’s tactics are a little ‘sadistic’. According to Emeritus Professor of child development at the University of South Africa, Frida Briggs:

It did no long-term damage to the children.

Maybe not the most ethically sound practice, but the children’s parents were present when these pictures of their children were taken.

These are old classics which some of you may have missed, we certainly did.

[Thanks, Paul]

[Source: Demilked]