James Mollison

James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After studying art and design at Oxford Brookes, 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 in Colors, The New York Times Magazine, the Guardian magazine, The Paris Review, the New Yorker, Le Monde and elsewhere. His previous books published by Chris Boot include The Disciples (2008), The Memory of Pablo Escobar (2007) and James and Other Apes (2004). Mollison has lived in Venice since 2003.

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JAMES MOLLISON: THE DISCIPLES
Introduction by Desmond Morris.
CHRIS BOOT
ISBN: 9781905712212 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 7/31/2011
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JAMES MOLLISON: WHERE CHILDREN SLEEP
CHRIS BOOT
ISBN: 9781905712168 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2010
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JAMES MOLLISON: THE MEMORY OF PABLO ESCOBAR
Text by Rainbow Nelson.
CHRIS BOOT
ISBN: 9781905712069 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 6/30/2009
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JAMES MOLLISON: THE DISCIPLES
Text by Desmond Morris, James Mollison.
CHRIS BOOT
ISBN: 9781905712120 | US $75.00
Pub Date: 6/30/2009
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JAMES MOLLISON: JAMES & OTHER APES
Text by Jane Goodall.
CHRIS BOOT
ISBN: 9780954689438 | US $19.95
Pub Date: 6/30/2009
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James Mollison

Featured image is from Where Children Sleep, James Mollison's collection of photographs of children's bedrooms around the world. The caption for this photograph reads, "Juan David is ten years old and lives in a shanty town with his parents in Medellin, Coloimbia. He and his family are 'internally displaced persons,' having fled from their former home town, where the community is severely affected by violence caused by the drug trade. Juan David's family now live with poor access to basic services like schools or hospitals. Their main food is soncoya, a spiky fruit which grows locally. Juan David's small shack was built by his father. It sits on wooden stilts on a steep hill crammed with other shacks just like it. The prospects for work here are very limited and his father struggles to get casual jobs as a car repairman. The family would love to move to America. Juan David is able to go to school. He enjoys playing football and would like to be a doctor when he grows up."

James Mollison: The Disciples

Introduction by Desmond Morris.
Published by Chris Boot

Between 2004 and 2007, James Mollison attended pop concerts across Europe and the USA with a mobile photography studio, inviting fans of each music star or band to pose for their portrait outside the gig. He subsequently combined portraits of eight to ten fans for each performer into a single lineup, making a single panoramic image in each case. With a total of over 500 individual portraits, in 62 panoramic images, The Disciples was an original, sharp and highly entertaining take on contemporary music culture and the tribalism invoked by popular music stars. This new and expanded affordable edition features four new images produced after the original Disciples was published, including fans of MIA, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga, and a group of Elvis Presley tribute acts.

James Mollison: Where Children Sleep

Published by Chris Boot

Where Children Sleep presents English-born photographer James Mollison's large-format photographs of children's bedrooms around the world--from the U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and the West Bank, Kenya, Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China and India--alongside portraits of the children themselves. Each pair of photographs is accompanied by an extended caption that tells the story of each child: Kaya in Tokyo, whose proud mother spends $1,000 a month on her dresses; Bilal the Bedouin shepherd boy, who sleeps outdoors with his father's herd of goats; the Nepali girl Indira, who has worked in a granite quarry since she was three; and Ankhohxet, the Kraho boy who sleeps on the floor of a hut deep in the Amazon jungle. Photographed over two years with the support of Save the Children (Italy), Where Children Sleep is both a serious photo-essay for an adult audience, and also an educational book that engages children themselves in the lives of other children around the world. Its cover features a child's mobile printed in glow-in-the-dark ink.
James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After studying art and design at Oxford Brookes, 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 in Colors, The New York Times Magazine, the Guardian magazine, The Paris Review, the New Yorker, Le Monde and elsewhere. His previous books published by Chris Boot include The Disciples (2008), The Memory of Pablo Escobar (2007) and James and Other Apes (2004). Mollison has lived in Venice since 2003.

James Mollison: The Memory of Pablo Escobar

Text by Rainbow Nelson.
Published by Chris Boot

The extraordinary story of the richest and most violent gangster in history--from his youth, his bid for political power, his domination of the world's cocaine trade, his campaign against the Colombian state during which thousands died, his imprisonment in a luxurious private jail, his escape, through to his eventual capture and shooting--is told in hundreds of photographs gathered by photographer James Mollison in Colombia. Exhaustively researched, this visual biography includes photographs from Escobar family albums, pictures by Escobar's bodyguards, pictures from police files (both shot by the police and taken in raids on Escobar's premises) and snapshots by the Federal Drug Administration officer who helped hunt Escobar down. The book's illuminating text draws on new interviews with family members, other gangsters, Colombian police and judges and other survivors of Escobar's killing sprees, supplemented by contemporary photographs by Mollison of Escobar's fleet of planes, his private zoo, arms caches captured by the police--and even Escobar's prison jukebox. A compelling picture story and a landmark in visual journalism.

James Mollison: The Disciples

Text by Desmond Morris, James Mollison.
Published by Chris Boot

James Mollison's stunning panoramic portraits of pop concert fans emulating their idols are collected in this addictive volume. Represented bands and stars include Madonna, Marilyn Manson, P. Diddy, the Sex Pistols and Rod Stewart. Beautifully designed, with an introduction by Desmond Morris and more than 500 individual portraits combined into 58 panoramic images, The Disciples is an original, sharp and highly entertaining take on contemporary music culture and the tribalisms inspired by popular music stars.

James Mollison: James & Other Apes

Text by Jane Goodall.
Published by Chris Boot

Fifty great apes--chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos, our closest biological relatives--are featured in this series of portraits by James Mollison. Photographed over a span of four years in seven ape sanctuaries (in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Germany and the United States), they are mainly orphans, victims of the illicit trade in "bushmeat." Djeke, Fizi, Gregoire, James, Koto and the others are all photographed as unique individuals, in the manner of passport photographs, while representing species whose survival is under threat. Featuring case note biographies and introduced with a powerful essay by Jane Goodall, this book celebrates the great apes. The faces that look back at us also raise profound moral and scientific questions--including what it means to define ourselves "human."