This Powerful Photo Series Asks Refugee Children What They Want To Be When They Grow Up

Vincent Tremeau is a photographer based in Dakar, Senegal, whose work focuses on raising awareness around humanistic issues across the globe. His ongoing series of portraits, One Day, I Will, asks displaced children living in refugee camps a single question: What do you want to be when you grow up?

Tremeau follows this question by asking each child to build a costume designed after their chosen profession. The result is a powerful series of images that capture the dreams and ambitions of the world’s youth. At this year’s Photoville festival in New York City, a special exhibition of Tremeau’s work, presented by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, highlights the girls and young women he’s photographed in his travels and their goals for the future…………….