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Kreativt barnporträtt  – 2024

"We are in a strange world, where everything is tuned and modified and veneered. All over social media. ... The problem's got so bad it's seeping down to our young, our youth. And, you know, it's putting pressure on young people to appear a particular way. I think this touches on a very sensitive, raw and polarising subject. And this image is executed actually really beautifully, really elegantly. It's dealt with a very sensitive subject in a very sensitive way.

Am I picture-perfect?, is this a piece of art? She's holding a paint brush and the whole thing looks very painterly. It's actually executed beautifully!

The more I'm looking at it, the more it's engaging me and drawing me in to it. We see a lot of pictures of children that are there to – celebrate the youth, celebrate their life. But this is the other side of it. This is the reality that parents have to deal with at some point. 

"I just love it more, the more I look at it. It's so strong! This is what we do to our children. She's looking in the mirror, and she's just trying to be, picture-perfect. And I, I really really think the story is... I think I'm gonna cry you know. And I don't do that. It's really strong!"

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"It's the fight that she's having between, having to prove herself, is she good enough – is she not good enough? ... This is, this is an incredibly powerful story!"

There's real power to this story, real power to this narrative. And we don't often see an image, that provokes our thoughts, to this degree."