COLORS Notebook is the fruit of a project launched by COLORS Magazine in collaboration with the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and Reporters Without Borders, the association which sustains freedom of speech and defends journalists across the world.

COLORS Notebook is a “special” issue of COLORS; it contains 50 blank pages so whoever receives it can express themselves as they like in any way they want. Since 2006, thousands of COLORS Notebooks have been distributed around the world, to give voice to those categories of humanity no one wants to listen to: Chinese prison inmates, people with mental disorders, South African children, artists, astronauts or just ordinary people. Thousands of people, all different yet all alike, who filled and continue to fill their Notebooks with messages of creativity, imagination, desperation, anxiety, oppression.

Each COLORS Notebook sent back to COLORS is totally unique. A COLORS issue with no filters, editing or censure. An issue in which anyone is free to tell their story and send a message to the world through their words, drawings or photos. An issue for sharing notes and reflections. A different way of really giving voice to “the rest of the world”.

The original Colors Notebooks were shown at the “Fabrica: Les Yeux Ouverts” exhibition realized in collaboration with the Pompidou Centre in Paris. In addition to Paris (2006), the exhibition has been hosted by the Milan Triennale, by the Shanghai Art Museum (both 2007) and by the Shiodomeitalia Creative Center, Tokyo (2008).

A number of COLORS Notebook were chosen for a two-volume book – Faces and Violence – published by Birkhäuser in Spring 2008.

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