Là où les enfants dorment…

(merci Savine !)

Les photographies prises par James Mollison autour du monde, près des dépôts d'ordures du Cambodge comme dans les grandes maisons du Kentucky, mettent en lumière les disparités et les inégalités entre les pays et cultures du monde, à travers un portrait d’enfant mis en parallèle avec la photo de sa chambre.

Une mise en perspective souvent saisissante. Une véritable leçon.

[‘Where Children Sleep’ - James Mollison (Chris Boot 2010)]

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Jasmine (‘Jazzy’), four, lives in a big house in Kentucky, USA, with her parents and three brothers. Her house is in the countryside, surrounded by farmland. Her bedroom is full of crowns and sashes that she has won in beauty pageants. She has entered more than 100 competitions. Her spare time is taken up with rehearsal. She practises her stage routines every day with a trainer. Jazzy would like to be a rock star when she grows up.

Indira, seven, lives with her parents, brother and sister near Kathmandu in Nepal. Her house has only one room, with one bed and one mattress. At bedtime, the children share the mattress on the floor. Indira has worked at the local granite quarry since she was three. The family is very poor so everyone has to work. There are 150 other children working at the quarry. Indira works six hours a day and then helps her mother with household chores. She also attends school, 30 minutes’ walk away. Her favourite food is noodles. She would like to be a dancer when she grows up.