James Mollison: Where Children Sleep
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Library, November 10, 2010
By Anne Mustienes (Miami Beach, Fl) - See all my reviews
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This is a book which should be in every school library and, if you can
afford it, in your own child's (grandchild's) personal library. My
grandchildren (ages 5 through 11) have read and reread it. The
photographs of the children's rooms tell a story in themselves and the
text contributes even more. They feel privileged when reading about
the lives of many of of the children and are critical of the have-it-
all children who are also pictured. In all, an incredible learning
experience and one which opens many doors of communication.
Book Description
Where Children Sleep presents English-born photographer James
Mollison's large-format photographs of children's bedrooms around the
world--from the U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and the
West Bank, Kenya, Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China and India--alongside
portraits of the children themselves. Each pair of photographs is
accompanied by an extended caption that tells the story of each child:
Kaya in Tokyo, whose proud mother spends $1,000 a month on her
dresses; Bilal the Bedouin shepherd boy, who sleeps outdoors with his
father's herd of goats; the Nepali girl Indira, who has worked in a
granite quarry since she was three; and Ankhohxet, the Kraho boy who
sleeps on the floor of a hut deep in the Amazon jungle. Photographed
over two years with the support of Save the Children (Italy), Where
Children Sleep is both a serious photo-essay for an adult audience,
and also an educational book that engages children themselves in the
lives of other children around the world. Its cover features a child's
mobile printed in glow-in-the-dark ink.
James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After
studying art and design at Oxford Brookes, and later film and
photography at Newport School of Art and Design, he moved to Italy to
work at Benetton's creative lab, Fabrica. His work has been widely
published throughout the world in Colors, The New York Times Magazine,
the Guardian magazine, The Paris Review, the New Yorker, Le Monde and
elsewhere. His previous books published by Chris Boot include The
Disciples (2008), The Memory of Pablo Escobar (2007) and James and
Other Apes (2004). Mollison has lived in Venice since 2003.
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