By combining photography and sciences, the 1+2 Residency produces, enhances and promotes an author photography in close connection with an exceptional scientific heritage. As an annual artistic program, the 1+2 Residency is built around several concurrent residency formats.

• a trio of photographers (1 renowned photographer by invitation + 2 emerging photographers via a call for projects) for a two-month residency. During this time, the photographers live together and create a personal and original work.
• the 1+2 Factory, a residency program in institutions and/or companies. Over a given period (from 1 to 6 months), a photographer creates an original work. With specific covered expenses and remuneration.
• the 1+2 Hors les murs, a residency program on the scale of a well-defined territory in Occitanie. Over a given period (from 1 to 2 years) a photographer creates an original work. With specific covered expenses and remuneration.

The winner is supported in its research by local communities, university (Université fédérale de Toulouse) and scientific (CNRS Occitanie Ouest, Cité de l’Espace, Muséum de Toulouse, Pic du Midi,...) institutions and researchers based in Toulouse and its metropolis, as well as in Occitanie. He·she is also accompanied by a mentor belonging to either photography or sciences field. The results of those different creative processes are presented in October in three different formats (a collective exhibition, a boxed set of three books in a "Toulouse" collection, and a 26-minute creative film). An inaugural week is organised with several highlights including the "National Symposium - Photography & Sciences" in which photographers, scientists, journalists and the public are exchanging views during several thematic round tables.

Current open call 2023: This creative residency on the theme of “UNCERTAINTY” will take place from February to early July 2024 at CIMI (Centre International de Mathématiques et Informatique de Toulouse) and is planned in three successive sequences lasting around two weeks: immersion in the laboratories, identification and meetings with CIMI researchers, creative time.

The call for submissions, open from October 18 to December 15, 2023, aims to select a visual artist who proposes an authorial and contemporary take on the theme INCERTITUDE (all aesthetics combined). The future winner will be selected on the basis of the quality of his or her previous work, but above all on the relevance, originality and feasibility of his or her project on the proposed theme.