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Irina Ionesco

“Like Sally Mann, photographer Irina Ionesco attracted controversy for taking photographs of her own child, but with unmatched notoriety. Turning her five year old daughter Eva into her muse and model, Irina spent years photographing her and instructing her in posed precociousness. The sprawling, kittenish results are heavily stylized, visually compelling, and beautiful — but damn, they’re seriously creepy. Eva has sued Irina three times for emotional distress.” – flavorwire.com

Now with all of that said, I don’t believe that these photographs are at all bad. I could understand, but it is not child pornography. It is meant to be tasteful. If the saying “Beauty is the eye of the beholder” is true, than Irina really was the beholder of her daughters beauty. I could understand why she was her muss. Pornography is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter. I dont believe, although she does have photos completely nude, that they were pornography. Do to the fact, that there are no acts of sex or sexual content. Just a natural body and natural-born beauty.

What are you thoughts on Irina Ionesco?

The following are some examples of her photographs with Eva.

What I Realized

Nothing will ever be the same

   Nothing will ever return

Sadness is the only thing keeping those memories closed

   If I remember, you’ll just get mad

The skeletons in my closet aren’t that bad

   I always remember and feel the tears ready to fall

Now my new self feels really small

  My whole life changed with one decision

But everyones keeps on flowing straight

   I want to sail away

But here I am to stay

   What I just realized

was all that I feel