I think it's very interesting to see the work done by Gabriele Galimberti that he has gone around the world making images of the children of many countries with the toys that for them are the most precious. Each photo tells a story not only for the toys that are seen in the image, whose quantity and variety surprises, but for the environment in which the photographs are taken.
It is possible that for many children they are not even the most precious toys but they are simply the ones they have and with whom they spend a lot of time as they grow up and probably assume other responsibilities.
The photographer is Gabriele Galimberti whom I recommend visiting on her website where you can see many more of her works of great quality. Apparently one of the things Gabriele checked while making the images was that not all children were willing to share their toys with him and apparently those who had many were slower to share them.
For the toy makers The study is shocking because there are toys that are repeated over generations and regardless of the country. For example, girls love dolls, the kids are delighted with dinosaurs (which protect them from the wicked in their dreams), trucks, cars and stuffed monkeys. And with them they seek to build a reality full of imagination and creativity, with the game as the sole objective.
And obviously context influences, in the images you can see how there are toys that show the environment in which the child evolves. In India, Monopoly triumphed because the idea of building houses and hotels is what is around, in Mexico the trucks are a reflection of the sugar plantation next to which the little one lives. Although in reality, I am concerned about the vision of the Ukrainian child with that deployment of weapons in his room.
And also influences the education we give parents. In the picture you can see that a Latvian taxi driver mother fills her son's toy car room, or the Italian farmer who gives her daughter useful tools to learn how to drive in the rural environment.
It is very significant to see that children value playing and having fun with non-electronic toys and that allow them to create simple game worlds, with which they solve their dreams and get protection. I recommend reviewing the images and of course putting into context what happens in our homes so that we reflect on the education our children receive, especially from their parents.
