What Makes Me Click!

Call for Participation in the Chennai Photo Biennale Edition 4!

The Chennai Photo Biennale, CPB Prism and the Children's photography archive are  co-curating an exhibition which opens in January 2025 and runs until March 2025 in Chennai, India.  The aim of the exhibition is to spotlight children’s photography on a variety of subjects from around the world and our theme is ‘What Makes Me Click!’.  We invite artists, educators, and organisations working with children and photography to submit photographs by children that showcase what children photograph and why. Entry is free.  Deadline to submit is 15th September 2024

WHAT WE NEED?

• 15-20 photographs in high quality jpeg format from a relevant project or practice.
• Explanatory text about the project/practice they come from, and any relevant text about each photograph and its child photographer (anonymous is fine, if that is the arrangements you have with the children and their parents/carers).
• A declaration via email from the responsible person submitting that you are happy for us to exhibit these photographs for the purposes of the Biennale including possible post-production artefacts). 

The format of the exhibition is currently funding dependent. At a minimum, we are planning for an online exhibition, although ideally we would aim for a hybrid exhibition (online and in person), with a series of related events (workshops and speakers) as well as a small zine / mini catalog. All artists/organizations submitting have the option to also archive the photographs with the Children’s Photography Archive C.I.C.. 

HOW TO SUBMIT?

Submissions can be sent to Melissa Nolas at childrensphotographyarchive@gmail.com and Gayatri Nair gayatri@chennaiphotobiennale.com before 15th September 2024. Subject: What makes me click at CPB4

For queries/further details please reach out to the same emails. 

All photographs in the CPA are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. If you do use this work please drop us a line, we’d love to hear from you.