Here you'll find the latest information on the book "I Am Alive" including press releases, images and video material. We are happy to arrange interviews with the editor, Martina Dase, the photographer, Dominic Nahr, or selected protagonists and guest authors. For questions or a book copy, please contact cosima.trittel@savethechildren.de
Press Releases
- 20.06.2022: UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi to open international premiere of Save the Children's ‘I Am Alive’ photo exhibition in Geneva | Save the Children International
- 16.09.2021: Dominic Nahr awarded International Photography Award for Save the Children’s Book of a Century "I Am Alive"
- 03.03.2021: "All children of war are our concern" – 10 years of the Syrian war – The Save the Children photo book "I Am Alive" will be published in its second edition on 8 March. On the cover: A girl from Homs
- 19.11.2020: I Am Alive – Child-survivors’ stories of war and hope
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Selected Coverage
In November 2020, Save the Children and German Development Minister Dr. Gerd Müller, presented the illustrated book "I Am Alive" at a digital press conference. The photographer Dominic Nahr, the survivors Vichuta Ly from Cambodia and José from Colombia, as well as British war reporter Jon Swain – who, like the host, is also a guest author of the book – joined the event.
Public interest in the stories of children at war is reflected in the consistently positive reviews of "I Am Alive" – from SPIEGEL and Focus Online to the NZZ, the TV culture magazines ttt (ARD), kulturzeit (3sat), twist (arte) and Arts and Culture (Deutsche Welle), and the Dithmarscher Landeszeitung.
Here is a selection of the coverage of the centenary book and project.
Deutsche Welle Arts and Culture
20.11.2020 Every year since 1959 November the 20th has been world children’s day. It was created by the United Nations in conjunction with the Declaration of Children’s Rights first introduced on that day in 1959. The global charity Save the Children, itself celebrating 100 years since it was founded, has published a book featuring stories of children who grew up in warzones – and were helped by Save the Children. Mehr...
Stern
21.22.2019: Seit 100 Jahren schützt „Save the Children“ Kinder in Kriegsgebieten vor Hunger und Gewalt. Zum Jubiläum erzählen sechs Menschen, wie die Hilfsorganisation ihr Leben veränderte. Mehr...
ttt - titel, thesen, temperamente ∙ Das Erste
14.02.2021: Sie sind die ersten Opfer von Kriegen: Kinder. Im Auftrag der Hilfsorganisation "Save the Children" hat der Fotograf Dominic Nahr zehn Menschen getroffen, die als Kinder einen Krieg erleben mussten. Mehr...
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
10.12.2020: Weltweit leben 426 Millionen Kinder in Konfliktregionen. Ein neues Buch porträtiert Menschen, die als Kind ebenfalls Hunger und Gewalt erlebt haben, und lässt sie erzählen, was das mit ihnen gemacht hat. Mehr...
Dominic Nahr
The awardwinning Swiss photographer Dominic Nahr grew up in Hong Kong and lived in East Africa for many years. As an ambassador for Leica, he has been reporting on the world’s trouble spots for over ten years. His coverage of the civil war in southern Sudan, on rebels and child soldiers in the Congo, and on terrorism in Somalia has been published in international magazines such as Time, The New Yorker, DIE ZEIT, and stern. Dominic Nahr studies people with deep empathy; his visual language goes beyond documenting atrocities and catastrophes. In 2017, he founded the photo agency MAPS with colleagues. In the same year, he photographed Save the Children’s relief mission in drought-stricken Somalia for National Geographic and DER SPIEGEL. Dominic Nahr has been working on the Save the Children project "I Am Alive" since 2018. The organisation exhibited his photographs in 2019 at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, and to representatives of the EU Commission in Brussels.
Martina Dase
‘The thing about people is, we are all interested in the lives of others. When you relate, that’s when you become curious.’ Martina Dase, a journalist, filmmaker, and expert on strategic communication, knows how important visual media are in connecting humanitarian stories with new audiences. As an award-winning television journalist for the broadcasters ARD, arte, and 3sat, Martina developed her own unique cinematic style, and the hallmarks of her artistic stamp are a common thread running through each page of this book. Martina’s desire to not just depict reality, but to help shape a better world led her to non-governmental organisations. She has designed multiple strategic campaigns and flagship projects, including for Greenpeace and Welthungerhilfe, before joining Save the Children Germany in 2016 to lead the communications team. There, she has worked closely with leading German media outlets, covering the humanitarian disaster on location in Somalia, hosted the anniversary celebration to mark one hundred years of Save the Children’s work, and is spearheading debate on the future of development aid. Martina has retained a keen focus on Africa, and her ability to show the humans behind the headlines has shaped all her work.