Where Children Sleep

Do you know where kids sleep? You have a chance to find this out because James Mollison has published a book of photos of children’s bedrooms from all over the world. He hopes that this project can encourage kids to think about inequality.



Kaya, 4, lives with her parents in a small apartment in Tokyo, Japan.


Jasmine (‘Jazzy’), 4, lives in a big house in Kentucky, USA.


Home for this boy and his family is a mattress in a field on the outskirts of Rome, Italy.


Dong, 9, lives in Yunnan province in south-west China.


Indira, 7, lives with her parents, brother and sister near Kathmandu in Nepal.


Roathy, 8, lives on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.


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


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


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


Tzvika, 9, lives in an apartment block in Beitar Illit, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.


Lamine, 12, lives in Senegal.


Joey, 11, lives in Kentucky, USA.