Peter Menzel has captured images of houses as well as their contents and the family who live there, from many locations throughout the world, in these images you can see many differences that reflect the place of origin.
Below are a small selection of these images.
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| Iceland |
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| Mexico |
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| China |
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| California, USA |
The images show differences in the surrounding landscape, different types of houses, and incredible differences in the stuff that people own.
In all of the above images there is at least one T.V. this says how effective television is at communication worldwide.
In each of the images the different amounts of stuff tells of the Availability of goods to purchase. In the USA stuff is fairly easy and cheap to come by, however in China there is neither the means to purchase or the space within the house to put copious amounts of stuff.
Images found at:
http://thechive.com/2013/07/29/peoples-home-possessions-from-around-the-world-38-photos/
Gabriele Galimberti's project Toy Story asks children to take their most precious things and display them in front of them. It is interesting that some children have one or two objects when others have a bedroom full of belongings.
Once again comparisons can be made between the children in a multitude of ways that reflect their country of origin, their influence by the media, their families morals, and even their future aspirations;
for example, based on the objects they have chosen I would assume that one of the above children wishes to be a pilot, another a musician, and another a policeman.
I can also link some of the above images with experiences from my own childhood; for example, I was never aloud to play with toy guns at my house whereas one child has a collection of toy guns at his disposal.
Images found at:
http://www.gabrielegalimberti.com/projects/toys-2/
My third precedent is a video from Campbell Live which film the contents of many children's lunchboxes to illustrate the connection between the nutrition received by children at different decile schools.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Lunchbox-differences-in-decile-1-and-decile-10-schools/tabid/817/articleID/269617/Default.aspx
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