Disturbingly Glamorous Photos of Kids Smoking

This photo gallery is named “The beauty of an ugly addiction” and is work of Frieke Janssens, advertising photographer that lives and works in Belgium. These shocking and deeply disturbing images present children smoking and are created to raise people’s awareness on the problem of smoking. The artist is probably trying to say that adults who smoke are like children who can’t willfully decide whether or not to partake in this horribly harmful habit. I only hope that the photos below are photoshoped and aren’t really kids who smoke cigarettes, cigarillos, the ones with white and without filters.

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5 Creepy Foreign Ads That Unintentionally Exploit Children

Somehow the rest of the advertising world missed the team-building session where they were told not to unintentionally exploit children.

Sssshhh. We’re Selling Sexual Abuse

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Using Children in Protests

Protesters are using all sort of means to get their massage through, but some things are a bit too much if you ask me. For example, using children in protests is totally not OK. I’m sure there are people who will say they don’t see anything wrong in parading with their kids on their shoulders, but I can’t possibly agree with that. What do you think about children being used in demonstrations?

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The Worst Parenting Fails Ever

Bad parenting got to a whole new level with these guys in the pictures below! I can’t believe how far is human stupidity able to go. It would be great if there was some sort of test for the future parents to see their IQ level and test their capability of taking care of a human being. I feel sorry for these kids, but probably, when they grow up, they’ll be a true parenting fail just like their own parents.

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Say Cheese!

These images are really inspiring and moving. Just look at these children and people and the terrible conditions that they are living in, but nevertheless, they manage to smile. This should remind us all to try and smile more. This little and simple gesture is very powerful. It costs nothing, but it makes life so much easier. Also the great thing about smile is the fact that it spreads surprisingly easily. Just think how many times someone smiled at you and soon you were smiling too. Enjoy in this great gallery and spread good vibrations and emotions.

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Children in flooded Pakistan

In Pakistan for many weeks now the floods continue to engulf more and more areas and the situation with the refugees is worsening. The boy in the picture below has lost his home during the flood. Here you can see him playing in a refugee camp in Punjab on August 25. To date, nearly 777,000 hectares of agricultural land was covered with water and 800,000 people became homeless and could receive assistance only by air.

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Female circumcision in Indonesia

In honor of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad 284 families in Jakarta, Indonesia , received money for their daughters participating in a mass circumcision. Winner of numerous awards, photographer Stephanie Sinclair visited this ceremony and presents us these moving photos of the scene.

9-month-old girl waiting for their turn to the procedure of circumcision.

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Artek the post-soviet summer camp

Claudine Doury is a French artist and photographer born in Blois, headquartered in Paris. She received the Leica Oscar Barnack in 1999, the World Press and the price Paris Match in 2000 for her series “Peoples of Siberia”. By 2004, she received the award Yan planet EARTH Niepce and the price for her whole work. Her first monograph, Peoples of Siberia, was published in 1999 by Seuil.She also published Artek, a summer in the Crimea (ed.de La Martiniere, 2004) and Loulan Beauty (The Oak, 2007). She is represented by Galerie Camera Obscura in Paris and is a member of the agency VII.

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Children of war

The generation, born from 1928 to 1945 didn’t have a childhood, it was stolen from them by those sad years of World War II. They are also called “Children of the Great Patriotic War”, but there’s nothing great about that if you ask me. All I can see on these images are sadness, orphans, dead people and grief. Take a deep breath and have a look at these disturbing black and white historic images.

The tortured children in 1942 Location: Stalingrad

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School buses in India

Probably first reaction to this photos is saying that it is terrible how children are being transported like a cattle in small wagons, but if you think about the situation of this country and it’s culture you might even look at these vehicles as regular transportation car. These small yellow tricycles in India have the same role as yellow school buses in America. This culture, common throughout the world is one that has grown organically, where distances are short enough to be cycled (where litigation is minimal!) and where homebrew transportation is common.

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Living with pollution

China is one of the most polluted countries in the world today, and that is nothing new. But still, maybe you should have a look at these images below and see how bad it actually is. Here are some deeply moving and disturbing images of deviated children and their parents. I don’t know if anything could be done for them. I can only imagine what is their life like and through how many problems they are going every day. And yet seeing this and knowing that we are slowly destroying ourselves nothing is concretely being done for the environment. By the time that we finally wake up it might be too late. While looking at these images, I feel that even now it is too late and we’ve reached the point where there’s no turning back.

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