Danish-Norwegian artist Nina Maria Kleivan is behind the series entitled Potency featuring her newborn daughter
Photograph: Nina Maria Kleivan
Of her work Kleivan has said: "Even though comical, you're not supposed to only laugh at these pictures. You need to contemplate them, ponder where this evil comes from"
Photograph: Nina Maria Kleivan
"Even my daughter could end up ruling Denmark with an iron fist"
Photograph: Nina Maria Kleivan
Kleivan's father was a member of the Norwegian resistance against the Nazis, and held captive in a prison camp, so she felt like she "had a right" to explore the subject
Photograph: Nina Maria Kleivan
Kleivan says: "nobody reacts to any picture other than the one of 'mini-Hitler'. Even though my generation doesn't speak out about the war, silently our cultural circle sees Hitler as evil incarnate"
Photograph: Nina Maria Kleivan
"When all you see is a picture, Stalin could've been anyone's kind grandfather. You can't see the millions of people on his conscience or what a paranoid, dreadful human being he was"
Photograph: Nina Maria Kleivan
She adds: "we are all born as a blank slate, who knows who we will become. I wanted people to think about where tremendous evil comes from"
Photograph: Nina Maria Kleivan
The pictures have been exhibited in Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Germany
Photograph: Nina Maria Kleivan
