7 Chilling Photographs of What Bullying Looks like Through the Eyes of a Child

The effects of bullying are wide, although sometimes you don't need to go any farther than a glance in the eyes of the victims to know just how deep it goes. Benoit Paillé, a French-Canadian photographer, took a series of photos (that we first saw on My Modern Met) focusing on the reflection in the eyes of kids who have either witnessed bullying or been bullied themselves. The haunting stares of the kids give a glimpse into innocence lost and damage done. There's something about the photos - and the recent batch of bullying stories - that can just affect you in the gut if you're a parent. You project your own children in the role of the target and it eats away at your insides to imagine them having those kind of emotional and physical scars. And for the parents of the actual bullies? Hopefully seeing photos like these will prompt them to do everything in their power to stop it from happening before more kids corrupted too young an age at the hands or words of their peers. Take a look… -By Meredith Carroll

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