"Tender Bridges" is an ongoing program since 2006. Circumscribed to the photographic collection of the Museo Universidad de Navarra and curated by Santiago Olmo and Rafael Levenfeld, to date it has nearly 400 pieces executed ad hoc by 14 contemporary artists and with 9 publications already published and another 5 in production.

Various contemporary authors of national and international prestige are being invited to study and reflect on the foundational period of photography, with the goal to explore and identify links that unite them and issues that distance them. The invited authors develop their photographic projects in dialogue with the pieces core topic of universal photography contained in the Museum's Collection.

Roland Fischer, Lynne Cohen, Jordi Bernadó, Sergio Belinchón, Gabriele Basílico, Xavier Ribas, Jorge Ribalta, Carlos Cánovas, and national award winners María Bleda and José María Rosa, Joan Fontcuberta and Javier Vallhonrat, are some of the artists participating so far, projecting their gaze on the history of photography.

The Tender Bridges program includes the realization of a lecture series and workshops with the authors, as well as the exhibition of individual projects by these artists once the series is completed at the Museo Universidad de Navarra, in 2014.

Five new publications already in production

The next publications to come out soon will be those by Javier Vallhonrat himself and by Jorge Ribalta, who delivered his work -entitled "Scrambling"- last May to the University Museum of Navarra. Also in production is a trilogy composed by Ángel Fuentes, Manuel Brazuelo and Martí Llorens on ancient developing procedures with current techniques.