Lost Futures: Our Forgotten Children - Hardcover

Grossfeld, Stan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0893816965 ISBN 13: 9780893816964

Publisher: Aperture, 1997

Synopsis

From the children of famine in Africa to teen runaways in the streets of our own urban centers, children are suffering in all parts of the world. Lost Futures: Our Forgotten Children is a moving chronicle by photographer/writer Stan Grossfeld--a two-time Pulitzer-prize winner--who has traveled from Los Angeles to India, from Brazil to Thailand, documenting the precarious living conditions facing the children of the world's poor. As this book shows us, there is hope for these children--if we are willing to take action.

Grossfeld has pursued a determined and clear-eyed inquiry into the tragic conditions with which these children struggle daily. An associate Editor at the Globe, Grossfeld photographs and writes with compassion and force. Lost Futures contains fifteen powerful photographic essays, each detailing the harsh realities of these young lives with a report that is brutal yet deeply affecting. Each essay delves into the everyday horrors faced by millions of children. From the often overlooked problems in our own backyards (child abuse, gang warfare, child prostitution, and hunger), to distressing global problems (famine in Africa and India, disease and poverty in Haiti, the AIDS crisis in Romania, child slavery, and the devastating effects of warfare), Grossfeld never lets us forget that the solutions are often simple when implemented.

Lost Futures is more than a troubling investigation into the dehumanizing conditions endured daily by millions of children--Lost Futures is a cry for help and a call to action. Included is the section "Hope for the Future," a directory of organizations and resources engaged in the struggle to right the horrific wrongs Grossfeld has brought to our attention. In the heartfelt Foreword from Muhammad Ali and the ardent message from Mother Teresa we are reminded that we can make a difference.

This important book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of today's children and for those interested in committed photojournalism.

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Review

Kindergartners with AIDS in Romania. Homeless children living in the tombs of Cairo and the sewers of Mexico City. Teenage prostitutes in Bangkok. Kids enslaved in Indian factories. Kids with guns on the mean streets of Northern Ireland. No question about it, the stark black and white images in Stan Grossfeld's book are gut wrenching--perhaps none more so than the child of the Gaza Strip holding her glass eye, its empty socket staring back at you. Yet this powerful and provocative book about the plight of millions of young people is as difficult to put down as it is to look at. At that, it could well set new standards in photojournalism.

About the Author

Stan Grossfeld is an Associate Editor at the Boston Globe. He received consecutive Pulitzer prizes in 1984 and 1985 for his work in Ethiopia, at the United States/Mexican border, and in Lebanon. He has published four books, The Whisper of the Stars; Nantucket: The Other Season; Two on the River (with Wil Haygood); and Eyes of the Globe. Honored by the Overseas Press Club, the Robert Kennedy Foundation, and the National Press Photographers' Association, Stan Grossfeld is also the recipient of the "Local Hero Award" from UNICEF, a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University, and three World Hunger Year awards. The photographer is donating his royalties from the sales of Lost Futures to the U.S. Committee for UNICEF.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0893816965
• ISBN 13: 9780893816964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 169