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. Where Children Sleep Vol. 2 was published by Hoxton Mini Press in 2023. 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
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
2024
Italian Interiors: Rooms with a View. Published by Phaidon Press | Impact Student’s Book. Published by Lumina Datamatics Ltd. | Práticas em Língua Estrangeira Inglês. Published by Editora Moderna Ltda.
2023
Issey Miyake. Published by Taschen GmbH. | Why We Photograph Animals. Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd. | Takeo, Packaging - Function and Laughter. Published by Takeo Co., Ltd. | Nature Methods. Published by Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions und Neurowissenschaften
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. | Joining the Conversation: A Guide and Handbook for Writers. Published by Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC | It Fits. Published by Ediçōes Sm LTDA | Alive 6. Published by Ediçōes Sm LTDA. | Philosophieren im Bewegungs und Sportunterricht. Published by Hep Verlag AG.
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.
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
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 Eyestee l (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 | SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 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
2006
John Berger, Here is Where We Meet. Published by Art Events
exhibitions
2025
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
2024
Kyotographie, Tokyo | Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China | The Lowry, Salford, UK | Staatliches Museum für Archäologie, Chemnitz, Germany
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 | Experimenta, The Science Museum, Heilbronn, Germany
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 | Caldwell Fine Arts, Caldwell, Idaho
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,b21_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
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
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