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Australian Photographer in Trouble Over Nude Exhibits of Pre-pubescent Boys and Girls
Noted Australian photographer Bill Henson has gone into hiding after police seized photographs of naked boys and girls, aged 12 and 13, from an exhibition at Sydney.
Violent threats have been left on the answering machine of the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, in Paddington in Sydney's eastern suburbs, which was to exhibit the pictures.
On the 22 May 2008, the opening night of Bill Henson's 2007-2008 exhibition was cancelled after Hetty Johnston, a child protection campaigner, lodged a complaint about the exhibition with the New South Wales police.
It was later announced that a number of the images in an exhibition of his work set to go on display had been seized by police, local area commander Alan Sicard, with the intention of charging him with "publishing an indecent article, under the Crimes Act." The seized images were also removed from the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery website, where the remainder of the series can now be viewed online. The website has since crashed.
Henson presents adolescents in their states of despair, intoxication and immature ribaldry, it has been claimed. He has said that these moments of transition and metamorphoses are important in everyones lives.
Such photographs could give people a taste for pedophilia, a clinical psychologist has warned.
"People who would never cross the line in the past, they would never have sought out photos of naked children are now doing it because it's so accessible," psychologist Jo Lamble told the Seven Network today.
Violent threats have been left on the answering machine of the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, in Paddington in Sydney's eastern suburbs, which was to exhibit the pictures.
On the 22 May 2008, the opening night of Bill Henson's 2007-2008 exhibition was cancelled after Hetty Johnston, a child protection campaigner, lodged a complaint about the exhibition with the New South Wales police.
It was later announced that a number of the images in an exhibition of his work set to go on display had been seized by police, local area commander Alan Sicard, with the intention of charging him with "publishing an indecent article, under the Crimes Act." The seized images were also removed from the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery website, where the remainder of the series can now be viewed online. The website has since crashed.
Henson presents adolescents in their states of despair, intoxication and immature ribaldry, it has been claimed. He has said that these moments of transition and metamorphoses are important in everyones lives.
Such photographs could give people a taste for pedophilia, a clinical psychologist has warned.
"People who would never cross the line in the past, they would never have sought out photos of naked children are now doing it because it's so accessible," psychologist Jo Lamble told the Seven Network today.
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