It might be a trick of the camera or a deceptively small boy, but Chester's head looks freakishly as large as that little boy's head.
OMG, it does! Chester and the kid have the same size head!
That photo was shot with a wide angle lens, which makes things in the distance look smaller and more distant than they really are.
Oh, and the idiot newspaper photographer left his other camera sitting on the floor in the background.