Time for more digging, folks. QAnon started dropping names tonight related to Rachel Chandler, the Epstein sex slave-turned modeling photographer we exposed two years ago. He's urged anons to dig into before (the last time, right before Voat went down for three days last April).
He's made dozens of child trafficking related posts today. You can see them all, here. A couple of notables:
"Ray Chandler = Allison Mack x 100"
"THE STANDARD HOTEL.
RACHEL CHANDLER."
And he dropped a link to a new artist I hadn't heard of:
" http://www.michalchelbin.com/portfolio_in.asp?id=1477&type=100228&sub_title=Strangely_Familiar&langid=1
Connection to Ray Chandler? Are you awake?"
So I did a little digging into Michal Chelbin. She's an Israeli artist who features "art" portrait photography of kids with dead eyes, topless preteens with their fathers in disturbing positions, naked underwater, and groups of topless girls hugging. She says:
"My images are vehicles to address universal themes: family issues, ideas of normality, puberty with its all incumbent pains and distractions, the desire for fame. An example of this is the adolescent girls I photograph, many of them are on the verge of sexual consciousness. They are in this difficult age, torn between innocence and experience. While their bodies might be still that of a child, their gaze sometimes imply differently. I try to create an informal scene, in which they directly confront the viewer. I feel they and their stories represent with most clarity the theme that interests me the most and which is the twilight zone between reality and fantasy. My aim is to record a scene where there is a mixture of direct information and enigmas and in which there are visual contrasts between young and old, large and small, normal and abnormal. My playground lies between the private and the public, between fiction and documentary. For me, the image is just the tip of the iceberg; it’s the gate to a story waiting to be told and which I try to depict in an appealing yet troubling way."
QAnon then dropped the link to the FBI tip line, like he did last year.
I'm not getting the connection between Chelbin and Rachel Chandler, though, other than they are both creepy female photographers with pedo-appeal photography.
While I was Google image searching Chelbin, Google offered up another "art" photographer doing "similar" work, Sally Mann. NSFW -- fully naked preteens. The second photo in the "Family Color" series is a little girl on a couch, naked, with claw marks on her stomach, titled "Dog Scratches." https://archive.fo/z2K05
(NSFW) Mann is apparently a famous America photographer roundly criticized for her naked kid photography, including a kid in a ditch, as well as her book of corpse photography.
The exhibition was divided into five sections that "visually depict[ed] the eternal cycle of life, death, and regeneration."[5]
Mann was inspired to produce the photographs in the book by her reactions to several different events. The first of these was the death of her father; later events that inspired her interest in death were the shooting of a prison escapee on the grounds of her Lexington, Virginia, farm and the death of her pet greyhound, Eva.[2] Mann arranged for Eva's skin to be preserved by tanning and buried her body in a cage in order to prevent the remains from being carried off by wild animals. She later dug up the cage and photographed the dog's skeletal remains.[2][6] A series of photos documenting Eva's decomposition is included in the book.[1][7]
Despite the fact that some critics found the images off-putting, Mann expressed surprise that the book did not garner the controversy of her previous books which featured nude photos of her young children. While giving the book a favourable review, Blake Morrison expressed his surprise that no one had questioned her right to publish photographs of the dead when there had been extensive protests over her images of her children.[2]
Nothing to see, there!?
Anyone care to dig more? I'm short on time at the moment. Neither of these artists came up in a SearchVoat of our archives.
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think- ago
Chelbin's photos seem to depict many Eastern European children / teenagers. A possibility would be that she takes pics, and someone in the US decides which of the children depicted will be trafficked.
(mere speculation of course)
Chandler runs a modeling agency = many of her models look like trafficking victims. There are many established lines of trafficking from Eastern Europe to the US, partly via Mexico / South America (remember Epstein).
Vindicator ago
Makes me wonder how much Melania knows.
think- ago
You can be sure that she knows a couple of things. Makes me wonder how she felt when they socialized with Epstein.
It was not only obvious that he was into girls, 'many of them are on the younger side', it seems to have been obvious too that he got girls from Eastern countries, and kept them at his NY town house. I recall reading that someone thought it was totally weird that so many girls from Eastern Europe were at this parties (the kind of parties Prince Andrew attended).
Vindicator ago
Melania socialized with Epstein? Links?
think- ago
Err....@Vindicator? There are photos of Epstein with Trump and Melania. You have seen them. Melania's phone number is in his little black book (IIRC), together with lots of phone numbers of Trump and the Mar-a-Lago staff. Since he was a Mar-A-Lago member.
Do you want me to do a post with photos of the occasions when Trump and Melania were photographed with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell?
Vindicator ago
Sure. I've never seen them. I'm assuming that was after it came out that he was trafficking kids?
think- ago
That was during the time when Trump said Epstein was a 'terrific guy' and acknowledged that many of Epstein's women 'are on the younger side'. :-)
Vindicator ago
So, long before the girl's mom went to the police and people found out he was a pedo.
think- ago
LOL.
IIRC, Epstein's mansion is quite close to Mar-a-Lago. The mansion where he got massages from girls every day several times a day, and raped some of them.
Epstein was a member of Mar-A-Lago.
He and Ghislaine Maxwell felt so safe there, they even groomed one of Trump's towel girls.
Trump said many of Epstein's women were 'on the younger side'.
I think he didn't mean Ghislaine Maxwell when he was saying that. /s
Imo, Trump knew perfectly well what Epstein did.
Trump might not be sophisticated, but he isn't an idiot. He would have been a bad club owner and businessman, if he hadn't known about Epstein's activities.
Do you think he never heard about the 'Lolita Express'?
Vindicator ago
How much time did Trump spend glad-handing guests at Mar-a-Lago?
When was the "Lolita Express" first talked about?
NOMOCHOMO ago
Who knows but we know he "glad-handed" Epstein @ Mar a Lago in 2000. That's the photo @think- is referencing
Donald Trump, Melania Knauss (now Melania Trump), Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida on February 12, 2000. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)
https://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/JeffreyEpsteinDonaldTrumpBillClintonSexOffenderBearStearnsChildMolestation.jpg?w=1024&h=954&crop=1
Trump's statement about Epstein's "girls on the younger side" was in 2002
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/
obviously Trump knew about Epstein's proclivities.
Who knows to what extent Trump or Melania knew about the entire pedo ring/brownstone, but I suspect they did.
Vindicator ago
Thanks for linking that. I hadn't seen that before. That looks like a bunch of people standing around for a large event, not the Trumps "socializing" with Epstein and Maxwell, which implies a deliberate seeking out of each other's company. What event was this?
So Epstein was almost 50 years old at the time. Which means Trump (or any other normal person) could see him with a 22 year old and make that cradle robber jab. The article that quotes him that you linked refers twice to Epstein being a "ladies man", yet it never mentions involvement with young models, teens, or kids. I think it's a pretty big leap to claim Trump "obviously" knew about Epstein's "proclivities."
NOMOCHOMO ago
Not sure it happened on Feb 12, 2000 (still looking though)
I disagree. Trump was 66/67 in 2002 when he made that comment. (Older than Epstein)
Also Trump met Melania when he was 52 and she was 25/26. So by that same standard Trump is into "young women"
IMO that isn't what he's referring to. He's saying both are into women, but Jeffrey likes them "on the younger side."
So either Trump knew, or he didn't and made a dig at Epstein for doing the same thing Trump is/was known for (dating young models)
Now even if Trump knew, I don't necessarily think he was involved.
Considering the NY mag interview was in 2002 and Epstein was soliciting at mar a lago a few years later, I could see Epstein interpreting Trump's quote as tacit approval, and beginning to recruit from mar a lago.
NOMOCHOMO ago
@think-
Only tagging you because I somewhat agree with you and want your input
(Not trying to create drama or beef, I think this is one of the most important pgate discussions that hasn't been resolved for many people)