the photographer gabriele galimberti travelled for 18 months around the world for his project “toy stories”. it is about kids and  their favorite toys. his conclusion after 18 months is “at their age they are all pretty much the same. they just want to play.” but how the play can reveal a lot. he says the richest children were more possessive with their toys and on the contrary in poor countries even if the child only had one or two toys it was much easier. he also says “doing this i learnt more about the parents than i did about the kids”. you could often see in the children toys what the parents are doing for a living and also depending on which part on the world galimberti was, the parents handled the photoshoot different by culture. Parents from the Middle East and Asia, he found, would push their children to be photographed even if they were initially nervous or upset, while South American parents were “really relaxed, and said I could do whatever I wanted as long as their child didn’t mind”. most of the toys are very similar to the toys galimberti and most of us had in our childhood so it was nice to see that some things stay the same and it felt a bit like a journey to his own childhood, galimberti says.

i really like the whole projekt and i think not only great pictures came out but also quite an anthropological study.

you can check out all of the pictures and more info HERE