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ather be heard and be seen with a sense of pride and dignity and with an independentperspective of the world. 317 Out of Focus is an initiative that was started in 1994 by Drik,an agency located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Drik trains children from poor working classfamilies to become photojournalists. The children have control over which images will bestrepresent their community. The photographs taken by these children, most of who cannotread or write, present a unique and powerful perspective that is missing in the professionaljournal articles. The children and their photographs have been recognised in exhibitions,television, radios and films. As well, some of the photographs have been nominated forawards. 3184.3 PhotographyPhotography continues to play a prominent role in the child sex industry, and there areways in which the private sector can help to alleviate the associated problems. The mostwidely acknowledged connection between photography and CSEC is in the modellingindustry. A UN Special Rapporteur has acknowledged: “The use of teenage girls, some asyoung as 13, modelling adult fashions may create the impression that thin pre-pubescentbodies are the most sexually desirable”. 319 It has been further recognised that, “photographsof children in their underwear for mail order catalogues are an easily accessible sourceof material for paedophiles, and are commonly used as such”. 320 A related concern aboutphotography is at the individual level, with the processing of films from private citizens.Although the Internet has largely displaced the use of commercial photo processing in thedevelopment of pictures evidencing CSEC, there is still a concern that current levels ofinterventions at this stage may be inadequate.Recently there has been enhanced dialogue on the role that various photography industriescould play to better protect children. Members of the British Association of Photographershave discussed useful guidelines for professional photography of children, including waysin which children may be photographically portrayed, protection of children while at theshoot, and education for parents regarding legitimacy of agencies. 321 Cases from NorthAmerica and Europe have helped define the legal parameters of appropriate photographyof children. 322 However, there are many more protective measures that could be taken,examples cited in the literature include background checks to ensure whether they havebeen implicated in exploitation and international databases of known abusers in the fieldcould be developed to allow for police screening of those involved in photography.Protection of children from harm in this industry is often undermined by protections forthe privacy of the alleged abuser. Such concerns have most recently been exemplified by aPrivate Sector Accountability in Combating the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children|79