Each year, Museo en los Cerros offers a photography program dedicated to supporting and developing independent artistic projects. The open call is launched at the beginning of each year and is aimed at photographers at different stages of their careers.
The program is conceived as a mentoring and project-development space that takes photography as its central axis while expanding toward other artistic practices and languages. It encourages sustained engagement with the creative process, addressing both the formal decisions and the conceptual frameworks that shape each project.
The program is structured around three stages throughout the year—Idea, Tools, and Shared Practice—which allow participants to develop a body of work and place it in dialogue with others. It is coordinated by Sebastián Szyd and enriched by the participation of invited artists who contribute through workshops, critiques, and informal gatherings. Previous guest instructors have included Rodrigo Abd, Marcos López, Adriana Lestido, Julieta Escardó, Chiara Scardozzi, and Lucio Boschi.
A core principle of the program is that it is free of charge. This decision is integral to its mission: to create a rigorous and sustained working environment regardless of participants’ economic circumstances. The program is made possible through the commitment of invited artists and a flexible structure in which not everything is predetermined, and where both formal and informal exchanges are essential to the process.
More than a technical course, the program is conceived as a space for reflection and production, where participants can deepen their visual language, strengthen their projects, and engage in critical dialogue with fellow artists and with the territory in which the museum is rooted.
