Where Children Sleep By James Mollison

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 Art and Design, he moved to Italy to work at Benetton’s creative lab, Fabrica. His work has been widely published throughout the world including by Colors, The New York Times Magazine, the Guardian magazine, The Paris Review, The New Yorker and Le Monde, and his previous books published by Chris Boot include James and Other Apes (2004), The Memory Pablo Escobar (2007) and The Disciples (2008). Mollison has lived in Venice, Italy, since 2003.
Where Children Sleep presents Mollison’s large format photographs children’s bedrooms around the world – including from the USA, Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and the West Bank, Kenya, Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China and India – alongside portraits the children whose bedrooms are featured. Each pair photographs is accompanied by an extended caption that tells the story the child in question - about Kaya in Tokyo whose proud mother spends 00 per month on her dresses; about Bilal the Bedouin shepherd boy who sleeps out with his father's herd goats; about the Nepali girl Indira, who has worked in a granite quarry since she was three years old, and about Ankhohxet, the Kraho boy who sleeps on the floor a hut deep in the Amazon jungle. Photographed over four years with the support Save the Children, the book is written and presented for an audience 9-13 year olds – intended to interest and engage children in the details the lives other children around the world, and the social issues affecting them, while also being a serious photographic essay for an adult audience. Its striking design features a child's mobile on the cover, printed in glow-in-the-dark ink.