YOUR article and editorial on the Shoot photo exhibition at City Screen Caf miss important points.

I was one of the people who complained to the cinema. I never suggested banning the exhibition.

But I do not think the City Screen Caf was an appropriate place to display these images because it is visited by families with small children, there to eat, drink and relax rather than view films or be "artistically challenged".

Small children would probably take these photos at face value and be disturbed and confused by them. I certainly would not have wanted my three-year-old child to see these photos, precisely because I don't think he would have understood the "irony" behind them even if I tried to explain it.

He would not have been able to read and understand the artist's written explanation which your arts writer Charles Hutchinson claims "justifies" the show.

It's a pity the organisers didn't use more common sense and hang the exhibition in a more appropriate place such as the upstairs gallery, which is only visited by film-goers.

Bernard Kay,

Chalfonts, York.

Updated: 09:00 Monday, January 17, 2005