Art: Halloween it ain't.

In April, I posted a series of photographs that were group pics taken of people with gas masks on. Today we're revisiting the concept, but we're highlighting the possibly creepier theme of children in gas masks.

It's hard to think of anything more symbolic of the many ways in which the adults strive to thoroughly corrupt and poison the world their children must live in than the image of a child in a gas mask. That the children in these pics are often posed for shots in which they play or hang with their families – as if to say, hey, even a full-spectrum bio-chemo-nuclear holocaust won't be all bad – makes it all the more strange and disheartening.