Child's Play - Mark Neville

Child's Play is the catalogue from Mark Neville's exhibition at the Foundling Museum on 3 February - 30 April 2017.

The catalogue presents images of children at play from existing projects by Mark Neville, alongside new images taken in diverse environments including Kenya and Ukraine.

The photo book, which also features Adrian Voce’s text overview of his ground-breaking work in the field of children’s play, plus an essay by curator Nicola Freeman, seeks to focus attention on attitudes towards play in the UK and how the conditions for children can be improved.

Neville explores the urge for the re-introduction of a new national play strategy which halts the closing of playgrounds and defends children's rights to play. In late January 2017 the book was disseminated to key policy makers, experts and each of the UK’s 433 local councils, and a symposium on 20 March 2017 explored the issue of spaces for play, looking at the real and imagined barriers to play in our cities, and focusing in particular on the privatisation of space.

Mark Neville's limited edition print 'Boy with Rope' (2017), from the Child's Play series, is also available from the Foundling Museum shop.

Published by the Foundling Museum London
Hardcover, 2016