Childhood's End

I have been asked umpteen times if the series of images called "Childhood's End" have something to do with World Childhood Foundation to which I can answer no. The name is borrowed from the novel with the same name by Arthur C. Clarke, one of my favorite authors.

The idea behind the images is that, much like in the book where mankind and Earth cease to exist after literally, physically childhood have been lost when the children ascend to a higher plane of existance, childhood's innocence will at some point be lost.

When we leave childhood behind we usually also leave our old toys, often broken, behind and they fall into oblivion. With the series I want to let these old toys gain new life photographically at the same time as the images will remind us that childhood is something fragile and precious that sometimes end all too abrubtly. All the images have in common that they are black and white, also mostly dark, to enhance the feeling of the ominous of loosing the innocence we possess as children.

Footnote: The book is also an unexpected and interesting intrepretation of the biblical "end of days" when the Devil causes the destruction of the World.