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07.03.2008
Home Time ...

Leading children’s charity Barnardo’s and a host of well known faces have joined forces with acclaimed photographer Cambridge Jones in a pioneering bid to find permanent homes for the thousands of children awaiting adoption across the UK.

Home Time – photography finding a home is an innovative and exciting exhibition which highlights just some of the thousands of children in the care system who have nowhere to call home.

Their stories are the focus of a new exhibition which opens at the Getty Images Gallery in London on April 24. High profile names such as Cherie Blair, Mario Testino, Gail Porter, Sam Taylor-Wood, Laura Bailey, Andrew Lincoln, Claudia Winkleman and Heather Small have so far offered to become guest photographers for the day to get a snapshot of their lives.

The exhibition runs at the Getty Images Gallery, 46 Eastcastle Street, London from April 24 until May 3.

Heather Small

The child Heather is photographing here is Nicole, a lively, friendly, healthy, bubbly, 5 year old girl who is meeting her developmental milestones. Nicole presents as shy, but can be a happy engaging girl. Nicole has experienced many changes in her care. She needs stability, reassurance, emotional support and nurturing. Nicole needs an adoptive family that will promote her ethnic and cultural heritage. (Black / Caribbean – Montserrat)

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For more information about adoption visit www.barnardos.org.uk

Barnardo’s works with approximately 115,000 children, young people and their families in over 394 specialised projects in local communities across the UK. This includes work with work with children affected by today’s most urgent issues: poverty, homelessness, disability, bereavement and abuse.