Adorable Photos of Children Around the World With Their Favorite Toys
Photographer Gabriele Galimberti's new book captures the universality of childhood.
| Tue Mar. 25, 2014 3:00 AM PDT
All photos copyright Gabriele Galimberti/Abrams
Each photo, of course, has a backstory.
"I ended up in a small village in Northern Zambia where there was nothing," Galimberti writes. "No water, no electricity, and of course, no toy shops. But the children had found a box of sunglasses—I think it fell off a truck—and the glasses became their favorite toys. Actually, their only toys. They would play 'market,' buying and selling the glasses to each other, sharing everything between them."
In Nopaltepec, Mexico, he met four-year-old Abel, whose home is close to a road where large trucks would pass by en route to a nearby sugar plantation. When asked to display his favorite toys, Abel chose 13 trucks. See these photos and more below.
Maundy, 3, Kalulushi, Zambia Gabriele Galimberti
Abel, 4, Nopaltepec, Mexico Gabriele Galimberti
Sophia, 4, Bradford on Avon, United Kingdom Gabriele Galimberti
Shotaro, 5, Toyko, Japan Gabriele Galimberti
Arafa and Aisha, 5, Bububu, Zanzibar, Tanzania Gabriele Galimberti
Enea, 3, Boulder, Colorado Gabriele Galimberti
Allenah, 4, El Nido, Philippines Gabriele Galimberti
Naya, 3, Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica Gabriele Galimberti
Watcharapon, 4, Bangkok, Thailand Gabriele Galimberti
Tyra, 3, Stockholm, Sweden Gabriele Galimberti
Julius, 3, Lausanne, Switzerland Gabriele Galimberti
Mikkel, 3, Bergen, Norway Gabriele Galimberti