And girls undressed in the eyes

Elena Mizulina, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction, demands to close the exhibition "Jock Sturges. Without embarrassment" in the center of the photograph named after the Lyumier brothers in Moscow. This was reported on the website of the member of the SF.

"The organizers of the exhibition, in my opinion, crossed the permissible line. This exhibition is a public demonstration of materials with child pornography, which is prohibited by Russian legislation: an article by the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation 242.1. In this connection, it is necessary to check who gave permission to conduct such an exhibition. I am convinced that the work of naked little girls, presented at the exhibition, cannot be interpreted as a work. This is the real propaganda of pedophilia. - said Mizulina.

Mizulina intends to turn to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika with an official request for an exhibition of the prosecutor’s audit on the fact of the exhibition.

The founder and curator of the Photography Center named after the brothers Lumier Natalya Grigoryeva noted that the naked body has been present in photographic art since the beginning of the 20th century. “To say that we cannot show the photographs that depicts a naked body will be blasphemy,” she said. “The exhibition has been opened since September 8, and since then we have not had any comments on the part of visitors that someone has been outraged, annoyed, insulting.”

Grigoryeva also said that for every photo, Sturges has permission from the model he shot. In turn, the center of the photograph has an agreement in which Sturges guarantees that he removed each model with her consent.

At the exhibition, which takes place from September 8 to October 30, about 40 works by Steurges are presented. "Glory came to the photographer along with the scandal. The image of female nature during puberty and to him attracted the attention of the conservative public, Christian communities and law enforcement agencies in the 1990s. At first, police officers, together with the FBI employees, searched the author’s studio and the arrest of his work and photographic equipment, a few years later, activists of the US Christian shops besieged books. Throughout the country , in order to seize and destroy the author’s photo albums.

Steurges released more than 10 monographs. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Metro Museum in New York, the National Library in Paris and the Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art.

In Russia, photographs of Sturges are recognized by Roskomnadzor by children's pornography, Interfax notes . Roskomnadzor demands to delete photographer pictures from sites.

Mizulina is known as the author of a number of ambiguous legislative initiatives, in particular the law "On the protection of children from information causing harm to their health and development." In early June, she made a legislative initiative to ban on Baby boxes in Russia . Last May, Mizulin and a number of deputies introduced a bill to the Lower Chamber on the withdrawal of abortion from the compulsory medical insurance system and their conduct only in state medical institutions.

In May 2014, a safe Internet league at the initiative of Mizulina compiled a base of images of children's pornography . According to LBI, the base "will allow law enforcement agencies to more quickly disclose and investigate crimes related to the storage and distribution of child pornography, sexual violence against children, and Roskomnadzor - more effectively counteracting the spread of such materials on the Internet."

“I have repeatedly talked about the acute need for such a base in our country,” Mizulina said. “A similar base exists in the United States of America, and we should take a closer look at their experience.”