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I Photographed Foster Children Every Month Through One Year To Show Importance Of Family And Home

Every month I visited one foster family in Estonia to take photos of adopted children. This was a photo project to draw attention for importance of the family – every child needs a home – even if the biological parents aren’t able to raise them, children do not belong in orphanage. Only family can provide secure feeling and unique environment so that children would grow up confident and one of a kind personalities. Project is listed as a gift for Estonia’s 100 year anniversary of the Republic.

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I'm a photographer living and working in Tallinn, Estonia. I have two children of my own, so I fell in love with child photography. I also love to create feminine and romantic portraits of women.

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I'm a photographer living and working in Tallinn, Estonia. I have two children of my own, so I fell in love with child photography. I also love to create feminine and romantic portraits of women.

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Josephine Casanova 6 years ago

Beautiful work

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Nancy E 6 years ago

What a worthwhile endeavor! Here in the US, adopted & foster children don't mean the same thing. Foster children are the responsibility of Child Services, & , a single foster child may have lived with many foster parents who are compensated for their care. Adopting is a legal process in which the child is a family member & can not be sent back at will.

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Maria Kruusenvald (Post author) 6 years ago

Thank You Nancy. In Estonia, when child is taken away or abandoned from biological parents, usually they are given to orphanage. There are possibilities for foster families, but this process is still very complicated with law in our country, adopting is far more complicated. Usually, when foster family finally is taking a child, they will raise him, and do not give away to another foster family, they take him as their real child and he will grow up in one family. Project was created to pay attention to this topic, so government would also make things easier for good "want to be parents".

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