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My Room Project: young people around the world let us into their bedrooms

Bedrooms around the world

We may still be able to imagine what conditions people in Europe live in, but it is difficult to imagine what life is like in other parts of the world and what conditions they sleep in, for example, in India, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Jamaica, the Philippines, Bolivia ... This is exactly what photographer John Thackwray discovered, who opened the door to the most intimate part of his home, the bedroom, to thousands of people around the world, and he combined photos taken in 55 countries in the My Room Project series.

Bedroom it is an intimate space that visitors do not normally enter. John Thackwray he entered the bedrooms of thousands of people around the world who bared their most personal space to him for his project My Room Project, for which it is just six years documented the bedrooms of people around the world. It has taken him from Mexico, Jamaica, France, Germany to Russia, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, China and Japan.

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This is what Claudia's bedroom from Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) looks like.
This is what Claudia's bedroom from Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) looks like.

He used a filter, but not a photographic one, as he was just taking pictures the bedrooms of people born in the eighties and nineties, in order to more easily compare the conditions, wishes and needs of a certain generation. He also interviewed the people who let him into the intimacy of their home, and he will publish everything in a book that will be published December 2016.

My Room Project – bedrooms of young people around the world:

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