The book "KIDS" (photos by Markus Marcetic) was published in 2007. This is a short photo book containing pictures of children in everyday life situations in eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.
"Working as a photojournalist for print media, newspapers and magazines, particularly in the developing world, you're often surrounded by children. Children are as much a part of the conflicts and human tragedies as adults, but very rarely children gets to be the center of attention in the stories made by the international photojournalistic community. Stories where children are in the main focus seldom reach the pages of magazines and newspapers, still around half of the worlds population are made up of children and young people under the age of 24.
One of my primary reasons for taking pictures is to get them published , but while reviewing the material I worked on throughout the years for various newspapers, magazines and ngo's, I noticed a number of pictures where a child or children were in focus and often these images summed the story I was trying to tell in a way that images of adults rarely does. But many of these pictures had never been published.
Children are usually easy going, open and untouched by demands made on an adult and are easy to get to know for a foreigner despite age and language barriers. One thing that is obvious is that children are the same everywhere in the world."
-Markus Marcetic
