August 29, 2007
Daddy & I
Pictures of white men and their adopted Chinese daughters by photographer O. Zhang
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~"I've been so far removed from the women's exclusive world of child raising, I can't help but look at these photos and wonder what's wrong with these men? What sort of man wants to care for children where there're no women present?
Maybe my feelings of inappropriateness and creepiness say more about me than what most viewers experience--and WHAT does that say about me?
I hate how quickly I saw something wrong, how reflexively these images of men with children conveyed menace. I feel brainwashed and violated. Hopefully more violated than the children in most of these photos will ever feel.