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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Chelsea Ritschel

Photographer behind Balenciaga ad featuring children holding ‘BDSM’ teddy bears breaks silence

Getty / Gabriele Galimberti

The photographer who shot Balenciaga’s recent controversial campaign, which featured children holding teddy bears dressed in bondage gear, has issued a statement regarding the backlash.

On Wednesday, National Geographic photographer Gabriele Galimberti addressed the criticism in an Instagram statement, which he said he felt “compelled to make” following the “hundreds of hate mails and messages I received as a result of the photos I took for the Balenciaga campaign”.

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