Video: Children's toys in the "Toy Stories" project by the famous Italian photographer Gabriele Glimberti
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
“Tell me what toys you have and I’ll tell you who you are” - perhaps this is how you can describe the new "Toy Stories" project by famous Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti … For a year and a half of work, he managed to visit different parts of the world and capture children with their most valuable treasure - toys.
We have already told our readers about the creative projects of Gabriele Glimberti. Of course, one of the most memorable is Delicatessen with Love: a kind of "photo report" about what goodies grandmothers treat their grandchildren around the world with. Today we will again talk about family values - about children and how they have fun.
The photographer himself, talking about the work done, shares many observations. Most of all, he was surprised by the fact that children from rich families were very distrustful of him, they were sorry to give toys, while the children of the poor happily shared what they had with Gabriele. Africans, on the other hand, rarely boast of toys, because they prefer to play with each other, rather than with things.
Children from different countries are similar in many ways, they believe that toys protect them in everyday life. Therefore, Gabriele was lucky enough to see funny plastic dinosaurs from both a six-year-old boy from Texas and a four-year-old girl from Malawi. Most of the toys are directly related to what surrounds the kids in real life: a girl from a wealthy family who lives in Mumbai loves the game of monopoly, since her parents are involved in the construction of houses and hotels, but her peer from a rural region of Mexico cannot imagine her life without collection of trucks, because he sees them, rumbling, passing near his village next to the sugar plantations. The Latvian kid has a miniature car fleet intact, since his mother usually uses taxi services, but the daughter of an Italian farmer is happy to while away the time with plastic rakes, hoes and shovels.
By the way, during the project, Gabriele Glimberti learned a lot not only about children, but also about their parents: in the countries of the Middle East and Asia, adults often forcefully pushed their children to pose for the camera, even if they were upset and out of sorts, but South African "Fathers", as a rule, allowed the photographer to do whatever was necessary, but only on the condition that their children did not mind.
The “Toy Stories” photo project clearly demonstrates how the things that our minds use to determine the range of things that we use in everyday life. However, do not forget that the reverse process also occurs. By the way, on our website Culturology.ru we have already talked about other similar projects - about the collection of school photographs from around the world from Julian Germain, as well as about the property of Chinese families in the project of the photographer Huang Qingjun.
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