Throughout the year, the Centre de la photographie Geneva Photography Centre offers cultural outreach programmes for schools from 5P (aged 8) up to university level.

Participatory exhibition tours for schoolchildren last between 35 and 55 minutes, and some can be accompanied by an image interpretation workshop. Interactive and engaging, the tours are led by a professional facilitator and photographer, who designs each tour according to the themes explored in the exhibition. Each tour is interdisciplinary and covers art and photography, as well as themes related to specific exhibitions such as ecology, history, geography. Teachers of all disciplines are therefore welcome. Descriptions of the tours currently on offer can be found below. Visits are free for school classes. Self-guided tours are also possible for school classes.

Exhibition PIPAS 2026. Trouble
Espace Ami-Lullin, Bibliothèque de Genève
From 27 May to 13 June
Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence
From 27 May to 3 July

The Shudder Palace
Le Commun
From 10 June to 8 July 2026

Minor Tides
Bibliothèque de Genève, Espace Ami-Lullin
From 2 July to 10 October 2026

PIPAS is the photography bienniale of the schools of the canton of Geneva. Every two years, around forty classes from across the canton—spanning all ages and school levels, and sometimes supported by professional photographers—undertake a photography project on a given theme. In May, the exhibition of the projects takes place at several venues in Geneva: at Centre de la photographie Genève, Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence at the HUG, and the Jonction eco-neighbourhood. In 2026, the chosen theme is ‘trouble’.

Whether they come from family albums or the media, the narratives conveyed by images influence our identity, our memory and our perception of the world. Some photographs become symbols of an era, whilst others make their mark through repetition. Often in subtle ways, these visual cultures shape our values and our relationship with the world. The exhibition thus offers a reflection that is both critical and sensitive on the power of photographs. How can we take ownership of the narratives that surround us, resist certain dominant representations, or even create new imaginaries that convey meaning and empowerment?

The exhibition Minor Tides brings together for the first time the young female artists Lina Geoushy, Sarah Jade Sullivan and Farren van Wyk, presenting each of their most important projects to date. All three artists focus on portraiture in their photographic practice, using it as a powerful tool for representing collective identity, but also as an instrument for critically re-examining history and reclaiming it for the present.

The school visits explore, in a manner appropriate to the pupils’ age, themes such as the role of portraiture in photography, the history of the geographical regions covered by the three projects (Egypt, the Caribbean, South Africa and the Netherlands), and the complex legacies of history and their influence on the present.