If Children Had The Childhood They Deserved

The artist Gundus Argive repeatedly painted the events that took place in powerful and dangerous events of the history.

Art: Cartoonist Gunduz Aghayev, 34, of Azerbaijan, re-creates iconic photographs of children suffering in the world conflicts, such as 'Napalm Girl' from the Vietnam War (above), into happy illustrations

Creative: In Gundoz's version of the picture, the children smile and hold balloons, while the soldiers appears as scarecrows. In the original, the kids are screaming and crying from Napalm burns

erspective: Gunduz re-imagines Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, 'The Vulture and the Little Girl' (above), which the photojournalist took during the famine in Sudan in 1993

Happy: The artist drew the little girl cheerfully embracing the bird as photographer Kevin Carter snaps the picture. In the real version, the vulture waits for the child to die so it can eat her

Devastating: This crushing image by photographer Joe O'Donnell shows a young Japanese boy bringing his dead baby brother to a crematorium after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki in 1945

Playing around: In Gunduz's version, the boy shoots his arms out like airplane wings as his baby sibling rides on his back, both of them laughing and staring into the sun

Contrast: Gunduz also injects superhero characters into his images, with one famous photo of a soldier carrying toddlers away from blasts in Vietnam transformed into a scene from an animated action movie

Heroes: Superman, Spiderman and Batman help save the kids in the artist's version

Horrible: The artist also re-created the 2015 photo of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, a Kurdish boy who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after trying to escape Syria during the refugee crisis

Cheerful: His illustration sees Alan cheerfully building a sandcastle on the beach, happily patting down the sand

Destruction: This famous photo of the wreckage from the Blitz in London during World War II shows a boy pointing to his former room

Comparision: Gunduz's re-creation sees the little boy standing with Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse and pointing to the Magic Kingdom - rather than his destroyed home

Touching: Gunduz re-imagined a photo of assassinated Azerbaijani journalist Elmar Huseynov's baby son touching a portrait of his dead father

Emotional: The artist's version sees the father and son embracing as they're surrounded by clouds

Hope: A photo of two child brides named Tehani and Ghada pictured looking stoic alongside their much-older husbands was turned into an illustration of the little girls playing with scarecrows, instead of the stern men

Difference: The girls are carefree and able to enjoy being children in Gundoz's rendition

So sad: This image of Jewish doctor Janusz Korczak, who chose to die with the children at his orphanage during the Holocaust rather than leave them, was also re-created by Gunduz

History: The artist's version shows the doctor showing the kids around a Holocaust museum

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