I have a dream

All kids dream. Whether their home is in Haiti, Liberia, Jordan, India, Mexico, Turkey or Uganda. Every child dreams of acquiring their own place in this world where they can be themselves, without being restricted by their living conditions. The past years, Chris has been following kids around the world to let them tell their stories and dreams.

Jury statement: Opera singer, president, captain, pilot: this is what they want to be one day. Or truck driver, movie star, model. It is not known which of these dreams will come true. It is not even very likely that they will come true one day. But that doesn’t matter yet. Because they are children, and they should not be caught up in probability calculus. They are living in Haiti, Liberia, Uganda. In Mexico, India, Jordan. And they might have kept their dreams to themselves, had they not been asked by someone. The Dutch photographer Chris de Bode has asked them. In poor districts, refugee camps, farm houses, huts. The boy who wants to overtake the fastest man in the world one day and is training for that every day. The boy who wants to travel the universe. The girl in the earthquake zone who wants to become a clown. De Bode could have shown faces, but he has achieved more than that: he has translated fantastic, wistful, touching thoughts into concrete visions.
Pictures of very peaceful international little dreamers who he has given wings to free them from the gravity of the real life for a moment.

Photos by Chris de Bode