Just when you think "you got it bad" you come across books like this that open your eyes to the reality of how people around the world are living, and some of these people are living with close to NOTHING. I found this book that depicts where children around the world sleep!
It makes me count all my blessings to say the least!
Where Children Sleep- stories of diverse children around the world, told
through portraits and pictures of their bedrooms.
When Fabrica asked me to come up with an idea for engaging with
children's rights, I found myself thinking about my bedroom: how
significant it was during my childhood, and how it reflected what I had
and who I was. It occurred to me that a way to address some of the
complex situations and social issues affecting children would be to look
at the bedrooms of children in all kinds of different circumstances.
From the start, I didn't want it just to be about 'needy children' in
the developing world, but rather something more inclusive, about
children from all types of situations. It seemed to make sense to
photograph the children themselves, too, but separately from their
bedrooms, using a neutral background. My thinking was that the bedroom
pictures would be inscribed with the children's material and cultural
circumstances ' the details that inevitably mark people apart from each
other ' while the children themselves would appear in the set of
portraits as individuals, as equals ' just as children.
This selection of diptych's from 56 in the book (Chris Boot November
2010). The book is written and presented for an audience of 9-13 year
olds ' intended to interest and engage children in the details of the
lives of other children around the world, and the social issues
affecting them, while also being a serious photographic essay for an
adult audience.
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