THE mother of one of Bill Henson's under-age models has charged to the besieged photographer's defence.
Kerryn, whose daughter, Lizzie, posed in non-naked photos for Henson as a 12-year-old said it was his "prurient" critics who were damaging the young models, not Henson.The teenagers she knew who had posed for him had grown into accomplished, well-adjusted adults, she said.
Emma De Clario, 36, a Melbourne artist and actor, yesterday said she had agreed to allow her 10-year-old daughter and six-year-old son to sit naked for Henson, though it had not been able to proceed.
Naked artistic photos of children were not pornography but natural intimacy, she said.
"It is the people who view our children as sexual objects that must be taken to task."
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