Updates
A record of recent news, exhibitions, publications, selections, and project milestones for Coral Kids.
Coral Kids is a long-term photographic and moving image project made with children, families, educators, and community partners in Aitutaki, Cook Islands. Through photography, storytelling, voice notes, and image-making, children participate in building a visual archive of their community and help shape the documentary’s development.
2026
June 2026
FotoDoc Photo Contest 2026 — Selected Photo Essay
Coral Kids has been published as a selected Photo Essay for the 2026 FotoDoc Photo Contest in Brazil. The selected works will now continue to the next stage of jury review for finalist consideration.
Link: Coral Kids — FotoDoc Photo Contest 2026
People and Place — Artdoc Photography Magazine
Two images from Coral Kids were included in People and Place, an online exhibition by Artdoc Photography Magazine. Made in Aitutaki, Cook Islands, the project follows children, families, and community partners as they use photography, storytelling, and lagoon knowledge to build a community-held visual archive.
Link: People and Place — Artdoc Photography Magazine
Postcards: Images and Whispers — Ostuni Foto Festival
A photograph from Coral Kids was included in Postcards: Images and Whispers, presented as part of the 2026 Ostuni Foto Festival programme in Ostuni, Italy. The exhibition continues the project’s international presentation following its earlier inclusion in Athens.
Link: Postcards: Images and Whispers — Ostuni Foto Festival
April 2026
Postcards: Images and Whispers — Women’s Photo Festival, Athens
A photograph from Coral Kids was selected for Postcards: Images and Whispers, an international group exhibition presented by Women’s Photo Festival at the Melina Mercouri Cultural Centre in Athens, Greece. The exhibition explored memory, communication, and connection through the postcard format.
Link: Women’s Photo Festival
March 2026
Topographies of Self — The Griffin Museum of Photography
Coral Kids was selected for Topographies of Self, a virtual group exhibition presented by The Griffin Museum of Photography, USA. The exhibition brings together artists working with identity, place, memory, and personal geography.
Link: Topographies of Self — Griffin Museum of Photography
AIDC 2026 — Coral Kids
Coral Kids was presented in development at the Australian International Documentary Conference, with support from the South Australian Film Corporation. The conference created valuable new connections with Aotearoa Māori documentary makers and opened important conversations around collaboration, authorship, and the next stage of the project.
Links: AIDC / South Australian Film Corporation
February 2026
Memory Cult Magazine, Issue 2
An image from Coral Kids was included in Memory Cult Magazine, Issue 2. The publication gathers contemporary vernacular photographic work concerned with memory, place, and image-making.
Link: Memory Cult Magazine Issue 02
December 2025
ABC Pacific / Nesia Daily — Princess Davey Photo Competition Feature
Princess Davey, a 12-year-old participant connected to Coral Kids in Aitutaki, was featured by ABC Pacific’s Nesia Daily after becoming the youngest winner of the ABC Radio Australia photo competition. Princess made the winning photograph during our first photography workshop, while she and her friends were in the lagoon learning to use cameras and document their own view of Aitutaki.
The feature marks an important early public moment for Coral Kids, showing how children’s image-making can carry their own perspective on friendship, play, lagoon life.