Loretta Lux - Observation

Loretta Lux's photography is based on children. Many of her photos have a child/children in the photos slightly posing and wearing mature clothes. The children look mature in the photos, which is creating quite a contrast as they are young children, and the photos differ to the usual photos of children. For example, photographs of children are usually the children dressed in clothes suited for their ages and doing what children do, such as laughing and playing. Loretta's photos show children looking quite serious. Here are some examples.

This photograph is of a very young child looking away from the camera in, my opinion, quite a dramatic pose. As I have said, children are usually portrayed in a playful way and usually quite happy, however on this photo the child looks quite down and the setting is grey. The expression portrays a depressed person. She is also looking downwards away from the camera as if she is thinking about something and feeling upset. This isn't what children should be doing and feeling, they should be enjoying themselves and learning. 

In this photo, Loretta took an image of someone, again, looking away from the camera and looks to be thinking. However this child in the photo is looking upwards, which suggests she isn't as depressed as the child in the first image, but she also looks to be doing and thinking about something that adults do, not children. Again, the child is posing in a rather mature way and wearing clothes that look too old for her. Loretta has a pattern in her photos, which are children looking grown up and wearing clothes that are too old for them. The body language of this child is far to grown up and not the normal image for a young child.

Finally, this photo looks to be the most grown-up and controversial photo of the three. The child in this photo is posing with quite a lot of make-up on with long blonde styled hair. She is holding a drink which suggests she isn't trying to look like an adult, but it portrays an image of a teenager. The dress she is wearing looks far too old for her and with the make-up, she looks like a teenager who is out at either the cinema or a party. The make-up creates a lot of contrast between this image of the child and the typical image of a child, however I think that it isn't far off what society is doing. The society we live in makes young girls feel they need to do themselves up and wear make-up with big hair, or they feel ugly. In my opinion, I feel the girl in the photo is too young to be dressing like that and wearing that make-up, however, if society carries on the way it is, that's what future children will look like.