Again, this is another photographer we covered in class, but as with the other, I was intrigued to find more by her. This one picture really stood out to me. While it seems to cover mature themes with the (fake) hand grenade, to me it feels very young and playful. The posture of the boy, along with the seemingly silly face he is making, evoke a since of innocence and youth. He seems like he could be distraught over his mom telling him to do something, or maybe his toy broke, or whatever reason you can come up, but ultimately he feels like a child reacting like a child should. It is the hand grenade in contrast with the youthful feeling that gives depth and meaning to this image. The complexity comes across very well and makes the audience think about what they are seeing.
The rest of her works follow this kind of complexity, showing images of a world we ignore and shun. She photographed the weird, the outcast, "grotesque" of the time period. You can look here to see some other works.
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