Background information
'Standing in the first grade of a school in a small village in southeastern Moldova in April 2008, where the teacher asked, 'Whose parents live in Italy?" and about two-thirds of the children pointed out with a mixture of pride and embarrassment, I was startled. It's completely different to read all the statistics about migrant workers and remittances than to stand in a cold classroom in front of 30 six-year-olds in woolen caps and know these children often haven't seen their parents in years...' (© Andrea DIEFENBACH)Content
In this book of photographs, 'Land without Parents', Andrea DIEFENBACH describes the living situation of migrant workers from Moldova, one of the poorest countries in Europe. Her color photographs almost painfully illustrate the distance between two spatially separated worlds: that of the children left behind in their homeland and that of their parents far away." (© Kehrer Verlag, 2016)Additional information
The first edition of the photo book 'Land ohne Eltern' (2012) was quickly sold out, so Andrea DIEFENBACH published a second edition. This 2016 edition features a different cover design and ISBN number.
- Format
- HC, 23 x 20 cm., 124 pp., 73 color ills.
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