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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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
