http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/contact_sheet/5202 My photographs are the result of my many years working as a nanny. I have always enjoyed letting go and entering into a world experienced through the senses. This seems to be a point of connection between me and my child friends. We explore and relate on this basic level resulting in images that inhabit this sort of in-between space of adult and child. In the field of Sociology of Childhood, there is an ongoing discussion of how our understanding and perception of childhood and adulthood is changing. The child/adult distinctions that were once based on the idea of the innocent child, who is developing toward the worldly, completed adult, are changing into something new. Children are no longer thought of as blank slates needing to be given all knowledge and information, they are now the “knowing child,â€* seemingly wise beyond their years, with our expectations of their responsibility for themselves early in life. Adults are no longer “completed.â€* We think of ourselves as always evolving or “developing.â€* This change in our perception of adulthood and childhood has been reflected in contemporary photography mostly as an externalization of the child as the “knowing child.â€* My photographs speak more to the internal transition, by asking the adult viewer to identify with the child and to recognize how these changes in our perception of children are also changes in our perception and experience of ourselves as adults. Christy Karpinski, 2006 http://www.lightstalkers.org en-us http://images.lightstalkers.org/avatars/13707/288284457_l_small.jpg http://www.lightstalkers.org/Christy Karpinski <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167406/birdygirl_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(birdygirl)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167406'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167406 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:02:35 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167406 <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167406/birdygirl_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(birdygirl)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167406'>view full-size image</a> Christy Karpinski <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167412/horse_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(horse)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167412'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167412 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:02:35 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167412 <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167412/horse_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(horse)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167412'>view full-size image</a> Christy Karpinski <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167424/hamtaroes_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(hamtaros)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167424'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167424 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:02:35 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167424 <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167424/hamtaroes_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(hamtaros)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167424'>view full-size image</a> Christy Karpinski <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167427/knees_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(knees)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167427'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167427 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:02:35 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167427 <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167427/knees_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(knees)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167427'>view full-size image</a> Christy Karpinski <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167433/greentubtoes_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(greentubtoes)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167433'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167433 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:02:35 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167433 <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167433/greentubtoes_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(greentubtoes)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167433'>view full-size image</a> Christy Karpinski <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167436/drawing_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(paper)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167436'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167436 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:02:35 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167436 <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167436/drawing_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(paper)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167436'>view full-size image</a> Christy Karpinski <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167439/hanging_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(hanging)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167439'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167439 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:02:35 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167439 <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167439/hanging_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(hanging)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167439'>view full-size image</a> Christy Karpinski <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167442/toes_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(toes)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167442'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167442 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:02:35 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167442 <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167442/toes_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(toes)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167442'>view full-size image</a> Christy Karpinski <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167445/yoyo_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(yoyo)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167445'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167445 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:02:35 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167445 <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167445/yoyo_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(yoyo)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167445'>view full-size image</a> Christy Karpinski <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167448/milk_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(milk)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167448'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167448 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:02:36 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167448 <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167448/milk_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(milk)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167448'>view full-size image</a> Christy Karpinski <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167463/valentinesribbon_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(valentine ribbon)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167463'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167463 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:02:36 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167463 <img src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/lightstalkers/images/167463/valentinesribbon_small.jpg' /><br />Untitled(valentine ribbon)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/167463'>view full-size image</a> Christy Karpinski