With their impeccable retro styling, the kids in Frieke Janssens’ “Smoking Kids” photos look like they could be lighting up with Marlene Dietrich or Don Draper. But don’t worry: Instead of real tobacco, Janssens handed her young models chalk, cheese sticks, and incense. Digital magic did the rest to capture the ugliness and the not-quite-bygone glamour of lighting up.
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Watch a video about the making of the photos here.