Voices of Children

 

Voices of Children is a travelling photographic exhibition that draws on the images and text that children have constructed. Different personal and cultural perspectives are depicted through the use of images and words generated by children from 6 to 14 years of age. The children used disposable cameras to capture images of their everyday experiences and provided brief written responses to questions about themselves, their families and their views of the world. Selected photographs and text were then converted to large digital images, multiple displays and some static framed images for the travelling exhibition. To date exhibitions have been held in Australia and Thailand with plans underway for an exhibition in October 2006 in the USA.
The travelling exhibition has been organised by academic staff in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong: Assoc. Prof. Ian Brown, Dr. Pauline Lysaght and Ms Ros Westbrook. Exhibitions outside Australia have been organised in conjunction with colleagues in each of the different locations. In each case, the focus for the exhibitions has been to include the children who participated in the project, their families and friends, as well as a broader audience.
This project has been generously supported by Adobe Systems US.
In 2006 the Voices of Children project has been expanded to include the contributions of children in other locations such as Qatar, Zambia and Guatemala with the continued aim of celebrating cultural diversity.

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