The Hillman Photography Initiative is an incubator for innovative thinking on the photographic image. The inaugural year of the initiative centered on four projects that, taken together, investigated the boundaries and possibilities of photography through the way that an image travels. Conceived through an open, discursive process, unique in a museum setting, these projects included live public events at the museum, a pop-up reading room in the galleries, two collaborative web-based projects, and a series of commissions, including documentary videos, art projects, and writing.