Venue Details

23.01.25 - 16.03.25

Government Museum, Egmore

10:30 AM - 6:30 PM (Fri closed)

What makes me click! celebrates children’s artistic, documentary, experimental, and vernacular [everyday] photography from around the world. The exhibition features images from 20 photography projects internationally showcasing the work of children from ages three to eighteen.

What makes the children featured in the exhibition click is manifold. Their subjects are as varied as their locations and the photographic genres they employ. Photographs included depict scenes from children and young people's everyday life and family, their local communities and schools, places and landscapes, their cities and country sides, the worlds of adult professionals and children themselves. The images have been made using film and digital photography, old school methods such as cyanotypes and the pinhole camera, as well as (D)SLRs and point-and-shoot, and disposable cameras.

Through a collection of over 200 photographs we come to see the world through child and young people’s eyes and lenses. Taken together the photographs convey children’s strong sense of place – whether that’s Chennai, Gaza, or Guatemala City, a curiosity about themselves and those around them, and an appetite for experimentation. Many of the photographs show them taking pleasure in the medium, playing with colour and composition, and demonstrating a level of skill that is a testament to the photographers’ many collaborations, with their subjects, their cameras, and with the adults in their lives encouraging and supporting them to make images.   

The photographs demonstrate the medium’s breadth as a mode of expression and communication and children’s and professionals’ enduring love for it across art, education, community work, and research.

Curated by Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation & the Children’s Photography Archive

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