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Umbrella Arts Wants Your Photos of Kids, the Creepier and Uglier the Better

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This could be the antidote to all the tot shots that have been flooding your Facebook feed lately. Umbrella Arts is putting on a show called “Kids (Not Cute)” — as the title implies, it’ll be dedicated to photographs of yung’uns that are “a bit out of the ordinary, not the conventionally cute and sentimental images that are often seen.”
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In the East Village, an Upper West Sider’s Vision of ‘Williamsburg: Old and New’

Old and New, 2013. Paul Kessel. Photo: Courtesy of Umbrella Arts

Old and New, 2013, Paul Kessel. Photo: Courtesy of Umbrella Arts

It isn’t often that one decides to change career paths at the age of 69, but that’s precisely what Paul Kessel did. In his previous life, Kessel was a psychologist and psychoanalyst but these days he roams the streets armed with his camera, capturing street scenes that catch his eye.
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