Allegra Baggio Corradi, the latest recipient of the Children's Photo Book Support Fund

As part of the latest round of the Children's Photo Book Support Fund, the project The École Buissonnière in Allegra Baggio Corradi was selected by a dedicated panel of experts. The Italian publisher thus becomes the second recipient of the award, following Olivia Arthur and her book Lee and the Sea Creatures , published in 2025.

Born in 1994 in Bolzano, Italy, Allegra Baggio Corradi is currently an editor at Shibboleth . At the same time, she conducts community-based research on language and turns her findings into books that serve both as artist’s publications and learning tools, which are then put to use within those same communities through various educational programs. She has also contributed to the publication R for Watching — related to the exhibition of the same name, which will soon be presented at the Rencontres d’Arles —, a book on youth photography published in collaboration with the Institut pour la photographie and Spector Books .

Playing Hooky , the winning project of the Children’s Photo Book Support Fund, takes the form of a photo book aimed at 12- to 15-year-olds. Created during workshops with children from Parisian community centers, the book will be organized into twelve chapters, corresponding to the months of the year, and will explore twelve distinct photographic genres. Photography serves as an inclusive language, inviting everyone to enter the narrative, to observe, imagine, and create. Portraits of leaves, details of tree bark, landscapes, and reflections become tools for reflecting on ecology, community, and ways of inhabiting the world together.

The first volume of the project is a reinvention of A Year in the Wonderland of Trees by American author Hallam Hawksworth, published in 1926 and illustrated by Lora Palmer Atkinson. One hundred years later, this book has become a photographic narrative rooted in today’s social and environmental issues.

Over the next two years, Allegra Baggio Corradi will receive support from the Institute’s team and a grant of €10,000 to help her develop and publish her book project by October 2027.