This document provides a summary of the book "Where Children Sleep" by James Mollison and Chris Booth. It describes how the book features portraits of children's bedrooms from around the world, showing the diversity and disparity in their living situations. These include a pupil in a Senegalese village school, children living in refugee camps or favelas in Brazil, as well as those in apartments in New York or Tokyo. The book was created with the goal of helping children understand the lives of others and promoting human rights, using photographs to depict realities that are difficult to describe with words alone.

1. Where children sleep: a round-the-world
tour of bedrooms

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3. Lamine, 12, lives in Senegal. He is a
pupil at the village Koranic school

4. Roathy, eight, lives on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia

5. Erlen is 14 years old and is pregnant for the third time.
She lives in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

6. Tzvika, nine, lives in an apartment block in Beitar Illit, an
Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

7. Jamie, 9, lives with his parents and younger twins brother
and sister in a penthouse on 5 th Avenue, New York

8. Indira, seven, lives with her parents, brother and sister
near Kathmandu in Nepal

9. Kaya, four, lives with her parents in a small apartment in
Tokyo, Japan.

10. Douha, 10, lives with her parents and 11 siblings in a
Palestinian refugee camp in Hebron, in the West Bank.

11. Nantio, 15, is a member of the Rendille tribe in
northern Kenya.

12. Thais, 11, lives with her parents and sister on the third floor of a
block of flats in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil..

13. BIOGRAPHY James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After
studying Art and Design at Oxford Brookes University, and later film and photography at
Newport School of Art and Design, he moved to Italy to work at Benetton’s creative lab,
Fabrica.
James Mollison explores in Where Children Sleep – a remarkable collaborative project
between him and American journalist Chris Booth capturing the diversity of and, often,
disparity between children’s lives around the world through portraits of their bedrooms.
The project began on a brief to engage with children’s rights and morphed into a
thoughtful meditation on poverty and privilege, its 56 images spanning from the stone
quarries of Nepal to the farming provinces of China to the silver spoons of Fifth Avenue.
Perhaps most interestingly, this project was designed as an empathy tool for nine- to 13-
year-olds to better understand the lives of other children around the world, but it is also
very much a poignant photographic essay on human rights for the adult reader.
One of the more meaningful photo series I’ve come across in a while, these photographs
paint a reality that is difficult to depict through words, revealing shocking differences
across countries, going from girls with thousand dollar dresses in their private mansions
to shepherd boys sleeping with goats.
Read on to let Chris Booth and James Mollison show you where children sleep