Issue:

Class Rooms: Places to spend time as a child.

By Kyo Shimizu

concentrating without noticing my camera, Kohistan, Pakistan, 2010
girl lights a candle to continue studying after a power outage, in a KnK Home, India, 2005

KnK (Kokkyo naki Kodomotachi: Children without Borders) is an NGO that supports children and schools in a number of locations around the world. These photographs by Kyo Shimizu are of children, classrooms and school commutes at KnK missions in Palestine, Timor Leste, the Philippines, Syrian refugee camps, Tohoku and beyond.

Kyo Shimizu, born in Tokyo in 1970, has been helping children for 20 years and expanded his work to become an award-winning photographer of humanitarian issues in 2016. He has worked for KnK Japan since 2003.