Caters News Agency In a metaphor for child abuse, a girl named Salome fights a mysterious monster using her pink plastic toy sword.
A photographer has tackled the issue of child abuse, using a series of creative pictures in which children fight back against monsters.
Laure Fauvel, 22, from Calais, France, wanted to create images to raise awareness of child sexual abuse and show that children don’t have to be victims.
Fauvel’s work depicts children — the models are kids whose families she knows — standing up to monsters lurking in the children’s bedrooms.Caters News Agency Oscar battles a a giant spider in Laure Fauvel’s photo aimed at tackling child sex abuse.
She spent two months creating the images, using photo editing software to superimpose the monsters into the shots.
The result is a series of creative, fun and empowering images showing that the children in the pictures aren’t victims.Caters News Agency Little Sixtine wins against a six-armed monster in another of French photographer Laure Fauvel’s works.
“The idea of a monster under the bed, or lurking in a bedroom is every child’s worry. We all had a monster in our bedroom,’ Fauvel said.
“Child abuse is a very difficult subject. So I decided to do something lighter and more positive by creating a visual metaphor where children are not victims,” she said. “The monsters were created on Photoshop by mounting different parts of animals and then I photographed the children fighting back against them … For the pictures, I just used the toys the kids had in their bedroom.”
Caters News Agency A dragon howls in fear at Christo’s toy cap gun in a photograph meant to signify kids’ fights against abuse.
She added: “The pictures have been received very wel,l which I am grateful for, and the (child) models think they are really funny. I’m pleased with how they have turned out and I think it is important to try (to) tackle serious subjects through art and photography.”
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