Where Children Sleep

[caption id="attachment_51297" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="9-year-old Jamie shares a top-floor apartment on New York's Fifth Avenue with his parents and three siblings. The family's two other homes are in Spain and the Hamptons."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_51298" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="14-year-old Prena is a domestic worker in Nepal and lives in a cell-like room in the attic of the house where she works in Katmandu."][/caption]

Kenyan-born, English-raised, Venice-based documentary photographer James Mollison's photographs of children and their sleeping arrangements highlights the shocking disparity between the living conditions of children from all over the world. From Fifth Avenue to Katmandu, Mollison's book, Where Children Sleep, was written and designed as an empathy tool for 9-to-13-year-olds to better understand the lives of other children around the world. Link

I'm thinking he's not smug but just profoundly nauseated by the patterns of his rug and bedspread! Seriously, it's possible that the furnishings are far more expensive than they look (because they look pretty tacky) but I'm not sure any kid would be envious of that room, much less any 9 year old boy!
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Out of all of these pics of the kids (if you go to the link), the absolute creepiest one has to be:

"4-year-old Jasmine has participated in over 100 child beauty pageants and lives in a large house in the Kentucky countryside."

ICK!!! Wrong in SO many ways.
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