Photographer Fights Backlash over Baby Wrapped in US Flag Picture [View all]

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Courtesy Vanessa Hicks Photography(NEW YORK) — A photographer and Navy veteran is fighting back after a photo she posted to Facebook started an online backlash.



Vanessa Hicks said she had no idea her photo would be considered controversial. The photo, from a military family’s newborn photo shoot, showed a newborn infant wrapped in an American flag held by his father, who was in his military uniform.

Hicks, a Navy veteran herself and the wife of an active-duty Navy member, said her intention was to honor the flag as well as her clients, who wanted to incorporate their military service in the photo shoot.

“This is what he was fighting for, his son wrapped in an American flag,” Hicks told ABC News.

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However, when she posted the image on her page, she started to get comments accusing her of desecrating the flag.

On one Facebook page, an unidentified poster put up her picture and wrote that they found it was “disrespectful, rude, tacky, disgusting, and against the U.S. Flag Code.”