Toys to the World
Toys to the World
Kai Löffelbein
July 11, 2015
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Seventy per cent of the toys and games sold in the world are manufactured in China. Production costs are cheaper than in any other country; but the real price is paid by the factory workers who are pushed to exhaustion.
Read the reportage with further pictures by Kai Löffelbein and a text by Kai Strittmatter in LFI 5/2015. Born in 1965, Strittmatter studied Sinology in Munich, with stays in Xi’an (People’s Republic of China) and Taipeh (Taiwan). He is a graduate of the German Journalism School and Süddeutsche Zeitung correspondent in Beijing.
Kai Löffelbein+-
Born in 1981, Löffelbein studied Political Sciences in Marburg and Berlin, and Photo Journalism and Documentary Photography in Hanover. His many awards include: UNICEF Photo 2011, Henri Nannen Award 2012 and Magnum Emergency Fund 2014. He is represented by Agentur Laif and lives in Hanover. More
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