save the children my own account

as a lifelong photographer i do believe everyone can take unique photos and that includes children living in refugee camps such as zataari. from 1,000’s of photos taken by children living inside an exhibition was created that humanised and prioritsed their identities and creative abilities. a unique fundraising approach was created by selling heart stickers that exhibition goers could put on photos they liked. a sister exhibition was put on inside the refugee camp too.

Gallery entrance at number 10, an aerial view of Za'atari printed across the glass doors

Exhibition print of a child's photograph — a figure skipping on red desert ground under a blue sky

Statistics wall setting out the scale of the Syrian refugee crisis, with the My Own Account masthead

Exhibition book open on the Photographers page, listing the children by first name

Close view of the statistics wall — 79,472 live in Za'atari

Wall of the children's photographs, red heart stickers clustered around the most-liked frames

A visitor pressing a heart sticker beside a photograph she liked

Exhibition leaflet explaining the heart stickers, with the sheet of red hearts

Hand opening the book on an aerial spread of the Za'atari camp

Book spread showing a child's photograph of others half-hidden behind tall leaves

Visitors gathered at the exhibition wall beneath three large portraits

Guardian picture essay — "Zaatari's children: life in a refugee camp"