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Offline BlueStateSaint

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Growing up with addicts
« on: March 25, 2014, 10:20:02 AM »
The full, untruncated title is below.  This is what drugs do to you, okay?  And they hurt a lot more than the users . . .

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Growing up with addicts: Controversial images chart one little Russian girl's heartbreaking life with drug-addled parents. But was the photographer right to take them and not intervene?

Photographic project from 2008 shows Russian family and their chaotic, drug fueled, lifestyle
Caused outrage in Russia when pictures were put online
Viewers were outraged at the neglect of two-year-old Asfina - who is surrounded by cigarettes, violence and drugs

ByJames Nye
 
PUBLISHED: 00:51 EST, 24 March 2014 | UPDATED: 23:02 EST, 24 March 2014

A photographer whose stark portrayal of a little girl's life surrounded by her poverty-stricken parents life of drug and alcohol abuse has defended her decision not to report them to authorities.

Irina Popova's photo-essay entitled 'Another Family' sparked national outrage when its portrayal of two St. Petersburg's addicts seemingly oblivious to their two-year-old girl, Anfisa, was shared widely online.

Parents Lilya and Pasha were captured living a raucous life of drug-fueled partying - while their daughter was allowed to wander to the ledge of an open window, play with their cigarettes and come face-to-face with her strung-out father's genitals while he slept-off his latest binge.

(Saint's note--I'm not including the image here.  You've got to go to the link.)

When the photographs were exhibited in St. Petersburg they were nominated for awards, but when the images made it online they almost sparked an official police investigation and a campaign was started to get Anfisa away from Lilya and Pasha and put into an orphanage.

Anger was mostly directed towards Popova, who was 21 when she took the photographs in 2008, for not intervening.

There's more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2587711/Images-shocked-nation-Photographer-defends-pictures-says-right-not-intervene-little-girl-removed-drug-addict-parents.html#ixzz2wzLc1vu6

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I could go on and on with the emoticons . . .
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Re: Growing up with addicts
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2014, 10:50:56 AM »
A lot of American kids are growing up with these problems, especially in the inner cities.  I believe as a country we are nearing a tipping point by not addressing addiction and it's ill affects on America.  I've read that for every addict at least ten people are impacted.





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Re: Growing up with addicts
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2014, 11:10:11 AM »
Poor Russian addicts, if they came to America they'd probably have a 46" flat screen and an I-phone.  :banghead:
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Re: Growing up with addicts
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2014, 11:40:18 AM »
My wife would love to have a little girl like that....she would spoil her rotten.
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