The ERC PoC CHILD PHOTO ARCHIVE (874454) project created a born digital archive, the first of its kind, for the collection and storage of children’s photographs. The Children’s Photography Archive C.I.C a not-for-profit Community Interest Company registered in England and Wales (No. 13503800) was founded in July 2021 in London. The Children’s Photography Archive C.I.C. serves the interests of children and young people, their visual heritage, and their role as documentors of their everyday lives, history and social change. The Children’s Photography Archive C.I.C. does this by working directly with children and young people and their families in diverse community settings internationally, and those adults in various professional roles who work with children and young people (e.g. teachers, youth workers, play workers, social workers, researchers etc) and provides an online repository for photographic projects with and by children, past and present, in research, community and educational settings. Children are our primary community of interest; educators, other professionals who work with children, and researchers of childhood are a secondary, and closely related community of interest. The Children’s Photography Archive C.I.C. developed out of international research on childhood publics, and children’s relationship to public life and the work of the Children’s Photography Archive C.I.C. is carried out internationally. In addition to launching, the Children’s Photography Archive C.I.C. spin off company, the CHILD PHOTO ARCHIVE (874454) project in partnership with Directorate of Primary School Education for the Athens Area and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, experimented with developing a pedagogical tool for children’s citizenship education by taking a visual research method (photo-storying) developed with children in previous ethnographic research (ERC-StG-335514) from the field into the classroom of nine primary schools in Athens, Greece, reaching 237 pupils, with over half of the children being from ages 5 to 7. Finally, the CHILD PHOTO ARCHIVE (874454) project has created learning resources for citizenship education broadly defined, in the form of illustrated, limited edition playing cards that summarise research literature on what children know and experience on a range of topics related to citizenship and considered sensitive such as death, race/racism, gender, the economy, and politics. The playing cards are intended for use in teacher training for citizenship education (broadly defined and sometimes referred to as ‘personal, social, health, economic education’) in primary schools, and for classroom discussions with children.
