What happens when our toddlers and small children usurp our camera phones? Do we keep the myriad images of seemingly ‘random stuff’ or do we swip past and delete them? In this talk, visual sociologist Melissa Nolas explores the world of camera wielding children as that was shared with her by seven year olds in her research. She argues that far from ‘random stuff’ the things that children photograph in their everyday life, while sometimes perplexing to the grown-ups around them ,reveal much about their gaze onto the world, and what moves and matters to them in their everyday lives. 

Melissa Nolas is a visual sociologist, digital archivist, writer, and photographer. She is the co-founder and director of the Children’s Photography Archive (CPA) which is a first of its kind born digital archive for children’s photography based in London and has been researching and writing about childhood publics for over twenty years. Before setting up the CPA she worked in higher education where was a Reader in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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