Brooklyn Beckham accused of glorifying gun violence over Instagram snaps
Victoria and David Beckham’s photography student son posed while pointing the prop weapon at the camera and holding it across his chest.
Pictures of Brooklyn Beckham posing with a gun have been defended by the photographer – saying it was a “creative moment”.
Victoria and David Beckham’s photography student son pointed the prop weapon at the camera and held it across his chest, in a shoot by photographer Damon Baker.
After the snaps were posted on Instagram, Beckham, 18, was accused of “popularising gun violence” and of depicting a weapon that causes “destruction and despair”, despite “being brought up with such privilege”.
“I come from a poor section of Birmingham, England. Where inequality and unemployment are the highest in the country. In these desperate conditions people often turn to crime, guns play a big part here. I’ve seen it first hand,” he said.
“It is a sad but true fact of the current world we live in that guns are everywhere.
Beckham was “a subject, a model” and “a blank canvas”, he added.
“In many ways we are living in dark times, where freedoms and livelihoods are being stripped from the people pretty much at gunpoint. I don’t think it is the job of my generation to sugar coat reality.”
Teenager Beckham, who is based in New York studying photography, posted a series of images from the black and white shoot on his Instagram account.
