With an exhibition space of almost 2,000 m², every year CAMERA presents three or four major exhibitions as well as a series of minor shows, alternating Italian and international experiences. CAMERA organises and hosts anthological shows by established artists, thematic collectives, as well as projects that investigate the latest research by up-and-coming young photographers.

The exhibition programming addresses various genres and practices of photography, today ever more in dialogue with the other disciplines of art and with realities active in the promotion of culture, on both the national and international stage. All the exhibitions are produced or co-produced by CAMERA, in association with other Italian and international institutions.

In the Gymnasium room, CAMERA hosts a programme of meetings open to the public with a view to making the Centre a meeting point for comparison and dialogue around photography. The programme includes encounters with the protagonists of the world of photography and culture, along with realities active on the local, Italian and international territory, in order to foster virtuous debate and thus to cultivate a new space for cultural discussion, expression and experimentation.

CAMERA’s educational activities foresee a programme aimed at different audiences on the basis of age and training, in the belief that imagery education favours the development of knowledge, as well as personal and autonomous critical skills. The educational programme includes a calendar of workshops, meetings and higher training courses staged in collaboration with professional photographers and authoritative international partners. At the same time, the educational activities dialogue with the younger members of the public through ateliers for schools and families with a view to promoting photography as a practice and language, and to providing the tools for the reading and comprehension of an image through the deployment of the gaze.

CAMERA dedicates its great commitment and skill to the study of photography archives, through conservational and cataloguing practices, the organisation of shows and publications with materials from both public and private collections.

What’s more, in collaboration with the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, CAMERA coordinates the project entitled ‘Censimento delle raccolte fotografiche in Italia’ (‘Census of the Photography Collections in Italy’) dedicated to the valorisation of the Italian photographic heritage.