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New photobook explores politics through children's bedrooms


A new photobook from the English photographer James Mollison is a clever examination of the complexities of society and the world at large as told through portraits of children and their bedrooms.

The idea for Where Children Sleep came after Mr Mollison was asked to do a photography project connected to children's rights.

Wanting to produce something original, the photographer begin formulating ideas that would eventually form one simple yet powerful idea: capture the space in which children across the world spend the night in.

Although the project fell through, the idea for it lingered on. Seven years on, the result is an astonishingly frank photobook, which is organised in two simple yet distinct ways.

One image captures a portrait of the subject and another capture's the subject's bedroom. That's it.

What is does show is that taken out of their "bedroom environment", the children could easily exist in one another's bedrooms, whilst equally drawing the viewer's attention to the uneasy truth that extreme poverty and absurd wealth sit uneasy amongst each other in the world.

Mr Mollison said: "The book is written and presented for an audience of 9-13 year olds and 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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