Faces of Hope: Children of a Changing World [Hardcover]

Alison Wright (Author), Marian Wright Edelman (Author)

Book Description

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.

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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 re cuperation after a devastating bus accident in Laos.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 180 pages
• Publisher: New World Library (August 20, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577312236
• ISBN-13: 978-1577312239
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 10.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,168,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Straight to your Heart!, January 2, 2004

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Gini (Madrid, Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faces of Hope: Children of a Changing World (Hardcover)

Alison Wright, thank you for making this beautiful book and share your wonderful photographs with us. I can't never get tired of looking at them.
You have photographed them with the eyes of your soul.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spiritual Photography, February 27, 2006

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RHB (Coconut Grove, Fl United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faces of Hope: Children of a Changing World (Hardcover)

Alison Wright moves beyond photography as she not only captures the physical essence of the children she photographs, she also captures the social and spiritual essence of these children. Each child leaps off the page and commands your attention. Alison takes the reader on a tour of the non-Western world and provides us a glimpse of these children's daily lives. By the quality and detail of the photos, it is obvious that Alison loves these children and successfully invokes compassion in the reader. Alison draws the reader into each picture through the beautiful imagery and vivid narratives which descirbe the various cultures of the children.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Superb Work of art and soul, October 24, 2008

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C. Her "mamabear" (Arcadia, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Faces of Hope: Children of a Changing World (Hardcover)

I found this book at the library after reading "Learning to Breath" by the same author. I decided to buy copies of this book for family collection and for Christmas gifts. My six-year-old son was so moved by the children's images on the pages and he kept asking quesitons about their societies and their lives. We decided that we were going to do something to help these children. I could not thank the author/photographor for opening my son's heart enough. Thank you, Ms. Alison Wright. You soul touches so many lives and hearts. Thank you.