Hungarian 'Migrant Chic' Fashion Shoot Send Twitter Mad http://t.co/yfTtzVCuSy pic.twitter.com/i6xmlTTBYW
? Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 9, 2015Hungarian photographer Norbert Baksa has upset a lot of people worldwide after he used the current migrant crisis in Europe as inspiration for his latest fashion shoot.
Titled "Migrant Chic," the series seems to show refugees fleeing—using barbed wire fences as backdrops and police brutality as motifs.
The high-fashion images juxtapose luxury brands with a desperate landscape, as models wrapped in headscarves fight to escape the clutches of border patrol guards. One shot shows model Monika Jablonczky appearing nearly topless under a long floral jacket and taking selfies with a Chanel phone case as she leans against one of the wire-enclosed barricades.
"We have experienced a lot of negative feedback since the publication of out photo series 'Der Migrant,' although more and more people recognize the true message behind the pictures and agree with it," a statement on Baksa's Twitter reads. "Considering the heated emotions and because, despite our intentions, many unfortunately consider the pictures offending, we have decided to remove the series from our website."
While the images may be officially offline for now, many twitter users are still livid over the "pathetic" and "totally gross" photo series:
However, there are those who've come Baksa's defense over the matter as well. And the photographer, who's shot for Elle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Playboy amongst other major publications and brands, has taken to Twitter himself to defend the photos and re-tweet his supporters: