Where Children Sleep

The World Forum's Global Working Initiative on Children's Rights is about to hold a strategic planning meeting in Moss, Norway.  While preparations were being made, Sandra Duncan shared an online book about children's rights called Where Children Sleep.

The book's creator, James Mollison was asked to come up with an idea for engaging with children's rights, and here is what he thought: 

"I found myself thinking about my bedroom: how significant it was during my childhood, and how it reflected what I had and who I was.  It occurred to me that a way to address some of the complex situations and social issues affecting children would be to look at the bedrooms of children in all kinds of different circumstances.  From the start, I didn't want it just to be about 'needy children' in the developing world, but rather something more inclusive, about children from all types of situations.  It seemed to make sense to photograph the children themselves, too, but separately from their bedrooms, using a neutral background.  My thinking was that the bedroom pictures would be inscribed with the children's material and cultural circumstances — 'the details that inevitably mark people apart from each other' — while the children themselves would appear in the set of portraits as individuals, as equals, 'just as children.'"

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