James, 5 years, Pan troglodytes, male, photographed in Cameroon

James Mollison is a British photographer who lives in Venice. His work is defined by original concepts applied to social and cultural themes. He is the author of ‘Where Children Sleep’, an ongoing project about children around the world and their bedrooms. A new edition will be published by Aperture in 2022. Playground, Aperture, 2015 is a book of photographs of school yards where children are at play which explores some of the complex dynamics around play and the environments where children learn. The Disciples, Chris Boot, 2008 comprises panoramic format portraits of music fans taken before and after concerts. The Memory of Pablo Escobar, Chris Boot, 2007 tells the extraordinary story of ‘the richest and most violent gangster in history’ through hundreds of photographs gathered by Mollison. James and Other Apes, Chris Boot, 2004 presents passport-style photographs of great apes and accompanied a solo exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London. His work has appeared in publications throughout the world. Mollison started life in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After studying Art and Design at Oxford Brookes University and then film and photography at Newport School of Art and Design, he moved to Italy to work at Benetton’s creative lab, Fabrica. From 2011 - 2014 Mollison worked as creative editor of Colors Magazine with Patrick Waterhouse. In 2009 he won the Royal Photographic Society’s Vic Odden Award for notable achievement in the art of photography by a British photographer aged 35 or under.

MONOGRAPHS

2024 Where Children Sleep Volume 2 by James Mollison | Published by Hoxton Mini Press

2015 Playground by James Mollison | Introduction by Jon Ronson. Published by
Aperture Foundation

2010 Where Children Sleep by James Mollison. Published by Chris Boot

2008 The Disciples by James Mollison | Introduction by Desmond Morris.
Published by Chris Boot

2007 The Memory of Pablo Escobar by James Mollison | Published by Chris Boot

2004 James & Other Apes by James Mollison | Introduction by Jane Goodall.
Published by Chris Boot

EXHIBITIONS

2024 Kyotographie, Tokyo, London
Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China

2023 Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, USA | Cortona on the Move, Arezzo, Italy |
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy | Staatliches Museum für Archäologie,
Chemnitz, Germany | Atchison Art Association, Kansas, USA

2022 Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine, Iowa, USA

2021 Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm, Germany | Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey |
Waikato Museum, New Zealand | Natural History Museum, Wien, Austria |
Arcoop Wall Project, Geneva, Switzerland

2019 Whangārei Art Museum, Whangarei, New Zealand | École des Métiers, Paris |
Hermes, Pairs

2018 Cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Belgium | Expression Whirinaki Arts Centre, Upper
Hutt, New Zealand | Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast | Amnesty International,
Berlin | Caldwell Fine Arts, Idaho, USA

2017 Side Gallery, Newcastle | Les Nuits Photographiques, Madrid | Miasto
Ogrodow, Miasto Ogrodow, Katowice, Poland

2016 Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík | Western Gallery, Washington | The
Leonardo, Salt Lake City | David J. Sencer CDC Museum, Atlanta

2015 Aperture Foundation, NYC | Flatland Gallery, Utrecht | The Photographers’
Gallery, London | Sun Valley Center for Arts, USA

2014 Fullerton Museum Center, California | Sun Valley Center for Arts, Idaho, USA |
Photaumnales, Galerie Nationale de la Tapisserie de Beauvais, France |
Festival Du Film Et Forum International Sur les Droits Humains, Genevev|
Michener Museum Fred Beans Gallery, Pennsylvania | FINI, International Image
Festival, Hildago, Mexico

2013 The Citadelle Art Foundation, Texas | James A. Michener Art Museum,
Pennsylvania | The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut |
FotoMuseum Provincie, Antwerp, Belgium | Musee International des Arts
Modestes, Sete, France | Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland |
Nuit des Images, Lausanne, Switzerland | Le 106, Scène de Musiques
Actuelles de la CREA, Rouen, France | Vivid Sydney, Sydney | Circolo dei
Lettori, Turin

2012 Atrium in The Hague City Hall, The Hague | Bursa Foto Fest, Istanbul, Turkey|
Happiness and Other Survival Techniques, Design Museum, London | Bergen
Art Gallery, Norway | Stapferhaus Lenzburg Museum Booklet, Lenzburg,
Switzerland | Movies That Matter Festival, The Hague | Théâtre national de
Bordeaux en Aquitaine, Bordeaux Cedex | Look3 Festival of Photograph,
Charlottesville | Nordic Light International Centre of Photography, Kristiansund,
Norway | RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt | Out of Mind, Lodz Fotofestiwal,
Lodz | Rencontres Internationales de la Photo, Arles | Guanddong Times
Museum, Guangzhou | Doca Gallery, São Paulo | Liquid Lab, Florence

2011 Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent | Flatland Gallery, Utrecht | Art Amsterdam,
Amsterdam | DSM Art Collection, Kerkrade | Arnhem Fashion Biennale, Arnhem
DSM Art Collection, JH Heerlen | Child in Danger, Child as Danger, Museum
Dr. Guislain, Gent | Mewo Kunsthalle, Memmingen | Hong Miao Gallery Hong
Miao Gallery, Shanghai

2010 Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome | The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum,
Coventry | GETXO PHOTO, Getxo

2009 Flatland Gallery, Utrecht | Colette Gallery, Paris | Who Shot Rock and Roll,
Brooklyn Museum, NY | Animalism, National Media Museum, Bradford

2008 Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York | Oceanographic Museum, Monaco |Colette Gallery,
Paris

2007 Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia | Museon den Haag, Den Haag, The
Netherlands | Les Yeux Ouverts, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai | Chocolate,
21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo

2006 Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden | World Museum,
Liverpool, UK | Les Yeux Ouverts, The Centre Pompidou, Paris | Bêtes de Style,
Mudac, Lausanne

2005 Brancolini Grimaldi Artecontemporanea, Florence | Natural History Museum,
London | Contact Photography Festival, Toronto

2004 Rencontres d’Arles festival, Arles

collections

The Luciano Huck Collection, Rio de Janiero
Brooklyn Museum, NY
National Media Museum, Bradford
The Pigozzi Collection, Geneva
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
James A. Michener Art Museum, Pennsylvania

awards

COLORS 86 – Making the News wins a Bronze Cube in Editorial Design at The ADC 93rd Annual, 2014
COLORS – Nominated at the Magazine Awards organized by Mag Pile, 2013
COLORS 85 – Going to Market wins a Bronze Cube in Editorial Design at the ADC 92nd Annual, 2013
COLORS 81 – Transport Wins a Bronze Cube in Editorial Design at the ADC 90th Annual Awards, 2011
Picture Perfect Documentary 2011. USA
Ted X San Francisco 2011. USA
Best in Book 2010. The Creative Review Photography Annual, UK
Vic Odden Award 2009. The Royal Photographic Society

Book Publications

2022 Etel Adnan, Colour as Language. Publised by the Van Gogh Museum | YOU.
Werkbundels A-finaliteit 4de jaar. Published by Plantyn nv. | Die Zeit calendar.
Published by Pattloch Verlag GmbH & Co.

2021 Fashion in Japan. Published by Seigensha Art Publishing, Inc. | Dier en Mens.
Published by Boom uitgevers Amsterdam | The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes.
Published by Gestalten | Dans ma maison. Published by Flammarion
SA | The Monocle Book of Gentle Living. Published by Monocle and Thames &
Hudson.

2020 Smoke and Mirrors: Cars, Photography and dreams of the Open Road. Published
Penguin Books LTD. | LEF! - A-stroom - Uit de veren. Published by Plantyn |
Connect. Billedredaktør, Alinea | The Monocle Book of Italy. Published by
Monocle and Thames & Hudson.

2019 Audace. Published by die Keure Published by Curriculum Associates | Les
représentations du Curriculum Associates | Les représentations du
monde. Published by Collectif | Homes, no Homes. Published by Gyldendal
Uddannelse | It Fits, 7. Published by Edições SM Brasil | Interiors: The Greatest
Rooms by Phaidon Press | Géographie 2de. Published by Lelivre + Scolaire

2018 The Spectacle of Illusion. Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd | Connections 6.
Published by Editora Do Brasil | Norman’s Cay, part of the Exumas, Bahamas.
Published by Assouline Publishing Inc | Joining the Conversation: A Guide and
Handbook. Published by Bedford/St. Martin’s/Macmillan Learning | Alive 6.
Published by Editorial - Iconografia

2017 Ético. Published by Saraiva Educação S.A. | Young adult learners, 21st
Century Communication. Published by National Geographic Society |
Kompetenzförderung mit Aufgabensets: Theorie - Konzept - Praxis. Published by
Hep Verlag AG |Tempo Composto. Published by Editora Eleva LTDA

2016 National Georgraphic Cengage Learning product. Published by National
Geographics | The Colombia Reader, History, Culture and Politics. Published by
Duke University Press | Kaleido 4. Published by Cappelen Damm AS |
Curriculum into the Classroom. Published by Queensland Department of
Education | Connect 8. Published by Cappelen Damm AS | DJ Focus. Published
by Heinemann Fountas Pinnell Literacy | Histoire-géographie. Published by
SEJER | Joining the Conversation: Writing in College and Beyond. Published by
Bedford/St. Martin’s/Macmillan Learning

2015 Issey Miyake since 1960. Published by Taschen | The Real Planet of the Apes:
A New Story of Human Origins. Published by Princeton University Press | The
Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins. Published by Princeton
University Press | Razao Social. Published by Editora Moderna|The Girl: A
Compendium. | EinFach Englisch: Songs of Protest and Social
Criticism. Published by Westermann | So Shu Ji Nen. Published by Ryohin
Keikaku Co., Ltd. | Kaleido 4. Published by Cappelen Damm AS | Impact 3
Student Book. Published by National Geographic Learning | Seydlitz
Geograhpie Rheinland-Pfalz 3. Published by Westermann | GeoWorld 9.
Published by Macmillan Education Australia | Niko 4 Sprachbuch. Published by
Ernst Klett Verlag GmbH

2014 It’s Nice That. Published by It’s Nice That | Chameleon. Published by Eyesteel
(FP) Productions Inc. | Inedible Truth, The politics of Food. Published by Paul
Cleveland | Decide! An Exhibition About Life In the supermarket of choices.
Published Arts & Sciences Exhibitions and Publishing GmbH |Sociedade em
Movimento. Published Editora Moderna Ltda. | Fotopraxis mit perspecktive.
Published by Kessler Druck + Medien, Bobingen | Protugese Educational
Book. Published by Oxford University Press Brazil | GeoWorld 9: For the
Australian Curriculum. Published by Macmillan Education Australia | Plan
Finland. Published by Plan Suomi Säätiö

2013 You Ain’t seen Nothing Yet. Published by Lannoo Publishers,Tielt | Joining the
Conversation: Writing in College and Beyond. Published by Bedford-St.Martin’s
| Hunger. Published by Madarek Publishing

2012 Making History Published by Hatje Cantz | SOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOO viele!!! Published by Edition
Lammerhuber, A-Baden/Wein | The New Pathway Transparencies. Published
by Westermann – Zentraler Rechnungseingang | Journey to English. Macmillan
do Brasil Amnesty Intenational. Published by Amnesty Intenational |
English Alive 6. Published by Razao Social/ Edições SM Ltda. Journey to
English. Macmillan do Brasil | Amnesty International. Published by Amnesty
Intenational | Where Children Sleep. Published by Madarek Publishing |
Opportunities and Decision Making. Published by Stapferhaus Lenzburg
Museum

2011 Child in Danger, Child as Danger, Dangerously Young. Published by Museum
Dr. Guislain Gent | Out of Mind. Published by Lodz Fotofestiwal | The New
Pathway Transparencies. Published by Westermann – Zentraler
Rechnungseingang | Project Media Textbook. Published by Emond
Montgomery Publications Limited

2010 GETXO PHOTO. Published by GETXO PHOTO

2009 Photo Wisdom, Master Photographers on Their Art. Published by PQ Blackwell
in association with Chronicle Books LLC |Who Shot Rock & Roll. Published by
Alfred A. Knopf

2008 The Living Other. Published by Veenman Publishers

2007 Chocolate. Published by 21_21 Design Sight

2006 Animals with Style. Published by Une coédition 5 Continents Éditions

2005 John Berger, Here is Where We Meet. Published by Art Events