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Wild Grass

Wild Grass

  • Authors: From (author) JT
  • Publishers: THE HOUSE OF Z
  • Date of Publication: 2024-10-14
  • Availability: Available
  • Pages: 320
  • Growing up in a small town in southern China during the app strict one-child policy in the 1980s, JT witnessed of the heartbreaking reality of a newborn girl and disabled children abandoned due to economic difficulties. In 2014, during a trip, he met “left behind children” whose resilience and vitality deeply impressed him. Reflecting on their struggles and the future Uncertain of what awaited them, JT couldn't help but wonder about the fate of the little girl abandoned in her childhood memories. This experience led the photographer to embark on the “Wild Grass” project, which involves documenting the lives of children in unofficial orphanages from China. Many of these children suffer from physical and/or mental, but most of them are not recorded in the system official households, which prevents them from obtaining basic social care and medical assistance through the social protection system. JT's visits to these orphanages revealed the difficulties they face are faced with, including lack of funding and lack of specialized knowledge in the care of children with disabilities. Despite these obstacles, he lived among the children, seeking to understand their everyday life and give them a voice through photography.
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