Click the play button on the video window to the right to see the storyAn ASU photography professor who takes nude photographs of her children is getting some heat from one child rights group.
Officials from the group, Citizens Against the Explotation of Children in the Name of Art (CATEC), said they are angry Arizona State University hired, gave tenure to, and won't publically condemn the nude photos taken by Betsy Schneider.
They said they plan to take their concerns to the streets of Tempe in protest on Monday afternoon.
Schneider is a tenured professor at ASU's School of Art in Tempe.
She is also the mother of two children.
Since the day her kids were born, she started taking a nude photograph of them each day.
Schneider said she did it as a way to mark time and said taking the photos helped her appreciate how her children were growing, changing, developing.
As a mother, it was a way to hold onto to time, she said, and onto those youthful moments.
"I want to make art about what's the most important thing in my life and its my children," she explained.
The Phoenix New Times profiled Schneider in its cover story recently.
Along with the article were dozens, if not hundreds of pictures that Schneider took of her children from birth until about the age of 5. Her daughter is now 10-years-old and her son is 6-years-old.
Most of them are full frontal shots.
On Friday night, Schneider displayed some of the photos at The Kitchenette Gallery near Roosevelt and 6th Street in Phoenix.
"Putting your child's naked pictures up for the world to see, for any sex predator to see, is not art," said Mesa's Debra Ward.
The Ward family drove to the exhibit from Mesa in order to protest what Debra called child pornography.
Her family made signs and stood proudly on a street corner.
Ward said she believed the Phoenix New Times print article was fair in that it didn't support Schneider or be critical, leaving it up to the public to decide.
What she was distressed about was the paper's decision to run the children's photos along with their names.
Schneider said it put those children at risk.
