Steal a toddler’s lollipop and he’s bound to start bawling, was photographer Jill Greenberg’s thinking. So that’s just what Greenberg did to elicit tears from the 27 or so 2- and 3-year-olds featured in her latest exhibition, “End Times,” recently at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles. The children’s cherubic faces, illuminated against a blue-white studio backdrop, suggest abject betrayal far beyond the loss of a Tootsie Pop; sometimes tears spill onto naked shoulders and bellies.
The work depicts how children would feel if they knew the state of the world they’re set to inherit, explained Greenberg ….
Read more from the Los Angeles Times.
Here’s the exhibition.
Wow. Those are powerful images. I wonder if the artist has kids?
Her daughter was included I read.