
Children playing with makeshift stilts in Ethiopia. Scroll through the gallery to see more images from Nancy Richards Farese's book "Potential Space."

Girls apply makeup at a refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Two children climbing on ropes in California, USA.

A Congolese refugee in Massachusetts, USA. She was "seeing snow for the first time," Farese said.

A child plays with a ribbon toy in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

A child playing with dolls in California, USA.

Fatima, 8, making a pretend clay oven -- like the one her mom uses -- at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Children play in a burned out car in Haiti.

A young boy plays on an outdoor swing in California, USA.

"One of the more ubiquitous games is one that, in Haiti, they called 'cercle,'" Farese said. "It's where they roll a tire and then use a wire, like coat hanger-type thing, to control it ... I've tried to do it, as an adult, just picking it up and running along the road with kids. It's super hard."

Two girls in Spain holding dolls, a recurring theme in Farese's photos.

A 2015 image from Haiti that the photographer named "Playing Dolls, Inheriting the Family Toy."

Farese documented Syrian refugee children playing in Jordan, where she traveled with the charity CARE International.

The image used on the cover of Farese's book, "Potential Space: A Serious Look at Child's Play," published by MW Editions.


