Synopses & Reviews
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.
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 Author
Alison 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.