With the support of Chantal Biya, First Lady of Cameroon and Goodwill Ambassador of Unesco for education and social inclusion, the book Sale gosse !, Communic’Art created for Unesco for the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on November 20th.

The photographer François Perri presents and comments 50 portraits of children taken over 20 years during trips to Africa and Asia. A sensitive eye on the difficult situation of children in the south.

These images will be exhibited from November 20th at Unesco Headquarters and then travel all over the world.

The Book Sale gosse! is a powerful testimony of life and hope. We are entering the world of these children at work, school, near rivers, in the streets or on landfills. These images help us to understand. To understand in order to better act.

For each book sold, 3 euros will be donated to Unesco to finance children’s support programs.

François Perri says “I’ve always been sensitive to their ‘resourcefulness’ face of adversity, their dignity and courage … Schoolboys without equipment, workers without machines, sellers of everything and nothing, street children and slum youth Palestinian refugees and orphans in Cambodia … to all these young, hapless heirs of a world often ruthless, I wanted to pay homage.”

A photographer specializing in Ethnosociological topics, François Perri travels the world since 1976 and publishes its reports in leading French newspapers : Grands Reportages, GEO, Photo, Marie-Claire, Match, Figaro Magazine… Nicknamed the “tailor of images” by a Tuareg chief, Perri conducted pinhole camera workshops worldwide and published several books, especially after his world tour sailing in the framework of Operation “Dans le sillage de Magellan”.

This book will be distributed by Communic’Art’s partner, Le Comptoir des Indépendants, to 600 general-interest and 50 specialized bookstores. It will  also be referenced in 40 professional databases and on online bookstores.

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