Where Children Sleep By James Mollison

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.