Camara Lucida is an art school created in 2000 by the photographers Carolina Vásquez and Fernando Aceña that aimed to offer a new space of exploration and learning in Valparaiso, Chile.

« It is a space that was born around teaching, teaching photography, and which today also wishes to host other areas, {…} It’s a project that grew up, but did not have that claim, that is to say, that did not pretend to become a bigger project, and that now wants to keep a human size. And this has been going on for 18 years and I think that will not stop now » confides Carolina Vásquez, director of the school.

Forming photographers for almost two decades, Camara Lucida has become one of the most important independent photography school of Chile, providing theoretical, aesthetic, and conceptual teachings, as well as practical studies, preparing students from analog to digital photography, illumination, photo shooting, emulsion, projects and exhibitions production, black & white laboratory, postproduction…

Forming photographers for almost two decades, Camara Lucida has become one of the most important  [...]