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Where Children Sleep
May 29, 2012
After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.
-Chinese proverb
-Chinese proverb
The book's creator, James Mollison was asked to come up with an idea for engaging with children's rights, and here is what he thought:
"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.'"
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United States
Okay the original site is still not up. Here is another place to view the photos:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/where-children-sleep/
Exchange
United States
We checked the link last night and it was working. Today their site is down -- maybe we sent too much traffic their way.
The photo essay is well worth waiting for however. You might try later in day or week this link again:
http://www.jamesmollison.com/wherechildrensleep.php
Exchange
United States
We checked the link last night and it was working. Today their site is down -- maybe we sent too much traffic their way.
The photo essay is well worth waiting for however. You might try later in day or week this link again:
http://www.jamesmollison.com/wherechildrensleep.php
light for children.
kumasi, ashanti, Ghana
I want to congratulate you on this topic.In fact if you see where children sleep in Africa,you may throw out.There conditions in the rooms may cause cold and other respiratory conditions.
We have pictures of where some of the children sleep and it is awful.Some sleep in stuffy kiosks with little poor ventilation rendering the children in poor state of health.Please is this a project the woman is implementing or she has just written a book on that.
Thank you for good the things that you are doing for children.
United States
The link to Where Children Sleep is not working. Is there an alternate?
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