James Mollison explores in Where Children Sleep — a remarkable series capturing the diversity of and, often, disparity between children’s lives around the world through portraits of their bedrooms.
4-year-old Jasmine has participated in over 100 child beauty pageants and lives in a large house in the Kentucky countryside. |
Alyssa lives in a small wooden house with her family in Appalachia. |
7-year-old Indira works at a granite quarry and lives in a one-room house near Katmandu, Nepal, with her parents, brother and sister. |
We saw some tiny little rooms with tin covering the roof in the congo. I am sure they are in the book. Fascinating isn't it? The different worlds. Like different planets.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. Jasmine and Alyssa actually live quite close to one another yet their worlds are so different.
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