Friends

On this page you will find a list of other archives and cultural initiatives dedicated to childhood, children’s lives, film, photography, and children’s visual cultures.

CPB Prism is the community-based & grassroots educational wing of the Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation promoting lens-based arts education. Both CPB Prism and the CPB celebrate and promote photography as a practice and an art form. Through lens-based educational programs and cross-disciplinary events, they aim to foster a community that inspires curiosity, reflection, and self-expression.

Girl Museum is the first museum in the world dedicated to girlhood. A virtual museum for exhibitions, education, and raising awareness about girls and girlhood globally, the Girl Museum also provides an information platform for social/cultural dialogue and investigation.

The Exercise Book Archive is an ever-growing, participatory archive of old exercise books that allows everyone to discover the history, education, and daily life of children and youth of the past through this unique material.

The Family Museum is an archival photography project co-founded in 2017 by filmmaker Nigel Shephard and editor Rachael Moloney. The project evolved from research for a book, A History of Family Photography, and is rooted in Nigel’s collection of around 25,000 original British amateur family photographs and 400 photo albums. The archive dates from the 1850s to the noughties and has been put together by Nigel over a period of 30 years.

The International Research and Archives Network for children’s and young people’s drawings exists since 2017. The network connects archives, collections and research institutes worldwide with the aim to investigate drawings made by young people. It is an excellent sources for views of the world especially in times of crisis of the 20th century e.g. two World Wars, genocides, flight and expulsion. The International Research and Archives Network for children’s and young people’s drawings on Wikipedia.

Camera Zizanio shows films created by children and young people under 20 years of age. This annual meeting of young people who come together to share and discuss their creations, enjoy their time together, and plan for the future emerged from the European Meeting of Young People’s Audiovisual Creation in 2001 as an initiative of Youth Plan in the framework of the Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People activities.