Hunger

by James Mollison (Photographer), Amy Flanagan (Editor)

In this collection of photojournalism from Bennetton's groundbreaking "Colors "magazine, stories of very human suffering are told through the hardhitting images of James Mollison, one of the great masters of documentary photography.
In 2002 Mollison and journalist Amy Flanagan traveled to Afghanistan, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea to visit projects supported by the United Nations World Food Program. Hunger is what they saw: intense images that represent the 800 million poor people around the world who live with hunger every day.
The people in Hunger are the forgotten ones. Their plight may not be dramatic enough to make the news, but this doesn't mean that their lives are not in danger, that they don't exist.
The UNWFP welcomes the publication of Hunger as part of its ongoing work to highlight the situation of the world's hungry. A percentage of the proceeds from this book will be donated to the UNWFP.

122 pages, Hardcover

First published May 7, 2004

About the author

James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After studying Art and Design at Oxford Brookes University, and later film and photography at Newport School of Art and Design, he moved to Italy to work at Benetton’s creative lab, Fabrica. His work has been widely published throughout the world including by Colors, The New York Times Magazine, the Guardian magazine, The Paris Review, The New Yorker and Le Monde. His latest book Disciples was published in October 2008 following its’ first exhibition at Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York. In 2007 he published The Memory of Pablo Escobar- the extraordinary story of ‘the richest and most violent gangster in history’ told by hundreds of photographs gathered by Mollison. It was the original follow-up to his work on the great apes – widely seen as an exhibition including at the Natural History Museum, London, and in the book James and Other Apes (Chris Boot, 2004). Mollison lives in Venice with his wife.

(From jamesmollison.com)

Reviews

[Meaghan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. "Hunger" isn't really the appropriate title for this. I thought it would be a series of photos of people affected by famine and hunger around the world; instead it's a series of photos of people affected by war and human trafficking. In fact the book didn't seem to have any clear thesis, though the photographs were quite compelling.