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Photographer: Roun Ry, 16; Anjali Photo Workshops, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2010.

The Children’s Photography Archive (CPA) is absolutely delighted to be co-curating a showcase of children’s photographs from around the world for Edition IV of the Chennai Photo Biennale.

Melissa Nolas, Director of CPA, and Gayatri Nair, Director of Prism, the CPB’s educational arm, have been working closely together since July to bring together a selection of images made by children in 20 different photography projects across the world.

We think of children who take photographs as ‘budding artists’, ‘photographers in the making’, and usually (even if subconsciously) wait until they become adults before we call them photographers.

Now more than ever, children around the world are engaged in photography. Some are of random objects, some are of homes, people and animals, and some are of nothing in particular at all – and each of them are taken by children while learning, playing, and experimenting with photography.

This exhibition is our attempt to bring the child’s voice to the forefront. What do children see? What do they value? What is important enough to them to photograph?

We do this in the hope that we all see children as humans with agency, with their own thoughts and opinions and put them in the centre of dialogues about identity, inclusivity and representation.

The exhibitions will feature images made by children as young as four and cover a range of photographic genres from the vernacular to documentary and artistic.

See a preview of the projects online and join us in Chennai from January 17 (Opening) until March 16, 2025 at the Government Museum.

  • Correction: due to circumstances beyond our control the exhibition opening is now scheduled for January 23 at 3.30pm. The location remains the same: Egmore Government Museum.

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