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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  Faces of Hope: Children of a Changing Worldby Alison Wright
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Perhaps best known for her photography of Tibet and its culture in exile, award-winner Alison Wright has traveled the world for more than two decades as a photojournalist. Working for children's aid organizations such as UNICEF, Save the Children, CARE, and SEVA, she has dedicated herself to telling the stories of children in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In Faces of Hope, Wright presents her finest photographs, showing the resolute spirit of these children in the face of poverty, famine, and conflict, and demonstrating how — with education and opportunity — they can become powerful assets to their struggling countries and to the world. In extended captions, Wright tells of her encounters with the children, detailing their cultural traditions, explaining their difficulties, and recounting their extraordinary lives. Book News Annotation:This volume presents vivid color photographs of children from
developing countries in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and
Asia. In the captions, award-winning photojournalist Wright relates
her personal encounters with the children and describes their culture
and daily lives. Wright, whose photos have appeared in publications
such as National Geographic and Time Magazine, is also the author of
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Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Review:"These 200 remarkable pictures show the children's resilience, joy, and hope in the face of overwhelming obstacles." Library Journal Synopsis:This volume presents vivid color photographs of children from developing countries in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. In the captions, award-winning photojournalist Wright relates her personal encounters with the children and describes their culture and daily lives. Wright, whose photos have appeared in publications such as National Geographic and Time Magazine, is also the author of The Spirit of Tibet: Portrait of a Culture in Exile. About the AuthorAlison Wright is the author of The Spirit of Tibet: Portrait of a Culture in Exile and the photographer for A Simple Monk: Writings on His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Her photos have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History and have appeared in National Geographic, Natural History, Islands, Outside, Geo, Forbes, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Magazine, the New York Times, and dozens of other publications. She is the recipient of the 1993 Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography for her photos of child labor in Asia. She is also the winner of the 2002 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award for her Outside magazine story recounting her astonishing survival and recuperation after a devastating bus accident in Laos. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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