Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Nick de Pencier’s Anthropocene trilogy—comprised of Manufactured Landscapes, Watermark, and ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch—are an essential testament to how human beings have radically, rapidly, and dangerously reshaped the face of the natural world. Timed to the opening of The Great Acceleration, a retrospective of Burtynsky’s photography work at the International Center of Photography which sees him exploring similar concerns via the still image, Metrograph welcomes the trio of Canadian filmmakers to screen and discuss these vital, disturbing nonfiction documents.Learn more and get your ticketsICP Members receive discounted tickets to the screenings by showing your member card at Metrograph’s box office. Show your Anthropocene Trilogy x Metrograph movie ticket at ICP for reduced admission to visit the exhibition Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration, on view through September 28, 2025.ShowtimesFriday, June 20Anthropocene: The Human Epoch - 7:10 PM* Followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas de Pencier moderated by New Yorker Journalist Raffi Khatchadourian. Saturday, June 21 Manufactured Landscapes - 2 PM* Followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas de Pencier after the film. Watermark - 5:15 PM* With an Introduction by the filmmakers and ICP's creative director David Campany. Friday, June 27Anthropocene: The Human Epoch - 7:50 PM Saturday, June 28Manufactured Landscapes - 2:45 PM*Visit ICP at 1 PM before the show to join a guided tour of Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration and show your Metrograph ticket at ICP to receive reduced ($10) ticket to the galleries. Watermark - 4:35 PM About the FilmsAnthropocene: The Human EpochA stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is a years-in-the-making feature documentary from the award-winning team behind Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013) and narrated by Alicia Vikander. The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century as a result of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth.From concrete seawalls in China that now cover 60% of the mainland coast, to the biggest terrestrial machines ever built in Germany, to psychedelic potash mines in Russia’s Ural Mountains, to metal festivals in the closed city of Norilsk, to the devastated Great Barrier Reef in Australia and massive marble quarries in Carrara, the filmmakers have traversed the globe using state of the art camera techniques to document the evidence and experience of human planetary domination. At the intersection of art and science, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch witnesses a critical moment in geological history — bringing a provocative and unforgettable experience of our species's breadth and impact. WatermarkWatermark is a feature documentary film that brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use. We see massive floating abalone farms off China’s Fujian coast and the construction site of the biggest arch dam in the world – the Xiluodu, six times the size of the Hoover. We visit the barren desert delta where the mighty Colorado River no longer reaches the ocean, and the water-intensive leather tanneries of Dhaka. Manufactured LandscapesMANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES, directed by Jennifer Baichwal, is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. With breathtaking sequences, such as the opening tracking shot through an almost endless factory, the filmmakers also extend the narratives of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste. About MetrographLocated two blocks from ICP, Metrograph is the ultimate destination for movie lovers. A special curated world of cinema inspired by the great New York movie theaters of the 1920s and the Commissaries of the Hollywood Studio backlots, Metrograph is a community inhabited by movie professionals screening their work, taking meetings, watching films, collaborating together — an audience built around our shared love of cinema.

Explore ICP’s photobook library during ICP’s Photobook Club, a community meet-up for book enthusiasts, photographers, and lovers of printed images. Bring your favorite photobook, zine, or other image focused publication to share while exploring monthly selections from the ICP stacks during this community-building event. This month's Photobook Club is hosted by Anderson Zaca.From 11-11:30 AM, explore Zaca's photobook selections, followed by Zaca's presentation on their practice at 11:30 AM. The program will conclude with a signing of the new book at 1 PM.ICP’s reading library contains over 20,000 books and periodicals. The reading room is currently open to the public during ICP’s monthly Photobook Club, to researchers by appointment, and to members during Library Member Hours. Learn more about ICP’s Library here.

Join us in the ICP Library for a book signing of photographer Anderson Zaca 's latest release, Fire Island Invasion, published by Damiani.Before the signing, explore Zaca's photobook selection for ICP Photobook Club during 11-11:30 AM, followed by Zaca's presentation on their practice at 11:30 AM. The program will conclude with a signing of the new book at 1 PM.About the BookInvasion began with Anderson Zaca's invitation to the annual Fire Island Invasion in 2007. With over three thousand images spanning almost two decades, Zaca's photographs serve as both an archive and a tribute to The Invasion, rooted in the rebellious spirit of the '70s gay liberation movement.Shot in black and white film with a medium format camera, this work combines traditional and contemporary elements, showcasing the beautiful contradictions in the political, sexual, and fiercely competitive expression of the drag queens. Zaca's images highlight the genius of their beauty and the elegance of this magical event.Anderson Zaca, an award winning visual artist, holds degrees in photography and film production. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has traveled extensively for documentary and commercial projects. Zaca teaches photography, journalism, and filmmaking, while managing a portfolio of high-profile commercial clients, including Nike, Budweiser, Neiman Marcus, Spotify, Renault, Samsung, Rolling Stone, and Target. Named Best Fashion Photographer by the Visual Arts Press Awards in 2018, Zaca has showcased his work in exhibitions worldwide and in various publications.Zaca's first book, ‘Block Party: Soul of Summer’, documents a quintessential tradition throughout New York City, the block party. Inspired by this body of work, Fuji Film and Samsung 360 sponsored a six-month, interactive exhibition at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, hosting over 250,000 visitors.Zaca is currently working on a feature documentary about Carnaval as well as screenplays for feature films. He is also the director, producer, and host of ‘The Darkroom MCs’, a photography documentary series premiering on PBS in Spring 2025.

This event is free with museum admission.Join us for a guided walking tour of the exhibitions Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration and Sheida Soleimani: Panjereh, led by a museum educator.About the ExhibitionsEdward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration The first solo institutional exhibition of world-renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky’s work in New York City in over twenty years, The Great Acceleration reveals the depth of Burtynsky's investigation into the human alteration of natural landscapes around the world, revealing both their present fragility and enduring beauty.This retrospective features over seventy photographs—including many of Burtynsky’s landmark images, some never before exhibited—alongside three ultra high-resolution murals and a visual and narrative timeline of his creative life. The Great Acceleration serves as both an urgent call for environmental awareness and an invitation to appreciate the sublimity that persists in the landscape, deepening our understanding of the global challenges we face today.Sheida Soleimani: Panjereh In Panjereh, Soleimani uses her family’s history—specifically her parents' flight from Iran as political refugees following the 1979 revolution—as a framework for exploring how meaning and memory are shaped by migration.Known for her studio-based constructions that layer photographs, props, live animals, and her parents into magical realist tableaus, Soleimani expands this approach in Panjereh while also debuting a new body of work: a series of close-up analogue photographs of injured birds. These works draw from her practice as a federally licensed wildlife rehabilitator and founder of Congress of the Birds, a care tradition she inherited from her mother.In these new images, Soleimani draws attention to the plight of migratory birds, many of whom are wounded on their journeys through populated areas, using them as metaphors for the social, political, and environmental barriers faced by displaced people around the world. The exhibition also includes a new site-specific wall drawing created especially for ICP’s galleries. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Image © Pasinee Pramunwong

Explore ICP’s Sheida Soleimani’s exhibition, Panjereh, during this hands-on all ages family workshop led by educator Carlos Nunez. Learn about the exhibition during an introductory tour of the show, then join the hands-on activity using Soleimani’s bird silhouettes to make custom stickers and anti-strike Window decals designed to protect birds from flying into windows. All ages 4 and up are welcome.Parents and guardians must remain with their children during the activity.

Join us at ICP for the New York launch of artist Alanna Field’s debut release, Unveiling published by Meteoro Editions. Meditating on Black queer and trans memory, lineage, vulnerability and desire, Fields and fellow artist Golden will discuss Unveiling and Golden’s book of photographs and poetry Reprise, as well as their respective practices of image making, archive shaping and history building. Following the discussion, the artists will be signing in the ICP shop. The conversation will be accessible in-person and online. The event is free to attend with the price of Late Night ICP admission and includes access to the galleries. About the BooksUnveiling is a conceptual monograph comprised of past and recent artworks connected to Alanna Fields’s projects, As We Were, Audacity, Mirages of Dreams Past, and Constellations: Our Love Was Deeply Purple. These series are center on Fields’s ongoing research on Black Queer Archives and the power of representation and speculation through vernacular imagery. As both a book and an object, Unveiling symbolizes the complexities and limitations ofvisibility and invisibility, while breaking open veils that reveal audacious queering. Meditating on Black Queer memory, vulnerability, and desire, this monograph brings to focus everyday representations of Black Queer life in the U.S. between the 1920s and 1990s. The design of the publication, developed in collaboration with Alanna Fields, Brian Paul Lamotte, and Pablo Lerma of Meteoro Editions, is closely connected to the tactility and visual properties of Fields’s original artworks, where painting, layering, repetition, fragmentation, opacity, and transparency become intermediaries to unveil the identities of the figures pictured. Throughout the immersive imagery in Unveiling, there lies whispers of poems and reflections on queer introspection by Sumia Juxun that thread and weave each section of the book together in a beautiful cadence.A visual & lyrical declaration filled with fever & flight, REPRISE, Golden's second collection of poetry & photography maps a personal search for safety in a U.S. that offers none. Golden’s collection illuminates a path through national uprisings, anti-trans violence, family loss, and a global pandemic. These sonically playful poems and assertive, color-saturated portraits reveal a stark vulnerability that invites readers to look deeply at times of great and, possibly, liberatory uncertainty. At its heart, this collection asks: Where is home? Who is free? What makes a nation? Golden seeks portals towards self-liberation. In their pursuit, we’re invited to witness and learn from their interior revolution, from which they emerge more free to declare themselves in small and large ways: Whether stating I just want to wear my orange dress to the tennis courts & come back home unbothered or I am home in the arms of the armed. Building on their debut collection, A Dead Name That Learned How to Live and their award-winning self-portraiture series, On Learning How to Live, Golden honors the living siege & sorrow, rage & revival, joy & creation of being Black and trans in America.Alanna Fields (b. 1990, Maryland, USA) is a mixed-media artist and archivist whose work both deconstructs and reconstructs Black queer memory and history through a multidisciplinary engagement with photographic archives. Fields’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Paris Photo, Art Basel Miami, Felix Art Fair LA, and Expo Chicago. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum, The Aldrich ContemporaryMuseum, The High Museum of Art, The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, and The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art. She has presented solo exhibitions at The Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art and Baxter Street Camera Club of NY and participated in group exhibitions at Yossi Milo Gallery, Yancey Richardson Gallery, Latchkey Gallery, Fragment Gallery, Residency Art Gallery, David Castillo Gallery, and the Silver Eye Centerfor Photography, among others.Fields received her MFA in Photography from the Pratt Institute and has given lectures on her work at the Aperture Foundation, Light Work, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Parsons School of Design at The New School, Syracuse University, and Stanford University. Fields is a Gordon Parks Foundation Scholar and Pollock Krasner Foundation grant recipient who has participated in residencies at Silver Arts Projects, Light Work, Baxter St. CCNY, Fountainhead Arts, and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, among others. Her work has been commissioned by and featured in major publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Aperture Magazine, and FOAM Magazine. In 2025, Fields released her first monograph “Unveiling” which spans her work on Black queer archives.Golden (they/them) is a Black gender-nonconforming photographer, author, & educator raised in Hampton, VA (Kikotan land) currently residing in Boston, Massachusetts (Massachusett people & Wampanoag land). They are the author of A Dead Name That Learned How to Live (Game Over Books 2022), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Poetry (Game Over Books 2023), and Reprise (Haymarket Books 2025). Their photographic series On Learning How to Live, an Arnold Newman Prize Finalist (2021), documents Black trans life at the intersections of surviving & living in the United States. Golden is the recipient of a Pink Door Fellowship (2017/2019), an Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Luminaries Fellowship (2019), the Frontier Award for New Poets (2019), a Best of the Net Award (2020), a City of Boston Artist- in-Residence (2020-2021), a Mass Cultural Council Fellowship in Photography (2021), a Women Photograph Project Grant (2021), a Collective Futures Fund Grant (2022), an Aperture/Google Creator Labs Photo Fund Grant (2023), the Queer|Art Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists (2023), and a MacDowell Fellowship (2025). They hold a BFA in Photography & Imaging from New York University. Their published & collaborative work can be found on/in The Yale Review, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Vogue, Muzzle Magazine, Split this Rock, Women Photograph, MFA Boston, Button Poetry, Best of the Net Anthology, Instagram (@goldenthem_), or through their website goldengoldengolden.com. Image © Alanna Fields

Join us in the ICP shop for a book signing and celebration of artist Alanna Fields' latest release, Unveiling. Artist Golden will also be signing copies of their publication, Reprise.Before the signing, Fields and Golden will be in conversation in the ICP Library. Learn more here. About the BooksUnveiling is a conceptual monograph comprised of past and recent artworks connected to Alanna Fields’s projects, As We Were, Audacity, Mirages of Dreams Past, and Constellations: Our Love Was Deeply Purple. These series are center on Fields’s ongoing research on Black Queer Archives and the power of representation and speculation through vernacular imagery. As both a book and an object, Unveiling symbolizes the complexities and limitations ofvisibility and invisibility, while breaking open veils that reveal audacious queering. Meditating on Black Queer memory, vulnerability, and desire, this monograph brings to focus everyday representations of Black Queer life in the U.S. between the 1920s and 1990s. The design of the publication, developed in collaboration with Alanna Fields, Brian Paul Lamotte, and Pablo Lerma of Meteoro Editions, is closely connected to the tactility and visual properties of Fields’s original artworks, where painting, layering, repetition, fragmentation, opacity, and transparency become intermediaries to unveil the identities of the figures pictured. Throughout the immersive imagery in Unveiling, there lies whispers of poems and reflections on queer introspection by Sumia Juxun that thread and weave each section of the book together in a beautiful cadence.A visual & lyrical declaration filled with fever & flight, REPRISE, Golden's second collection of poetry & photography maps a personal search for safety in a U.S. that offers none. Golden’s collection illuminates a path through national uprisings, anti-trans violence, family loss, and a global pandemic. These sonically playful poems and assertive, color-saturated portraits reveal a stark vulnerability that invites readers to look deeply at times of great and, possibly, liberatory uncertainty. At its heart, this collection asks: Where is home? Who is free? What makes a nation? Golden seeks portals towards self-liberation. In their pursuit, we’re invited to witness and learn from their interior revolution, from which they emerge more free to declare themselves in small and large ways: Whether stating I just want to wear my orange dress to the tennis courts & come back home unbothered or I am home in the arms of the armed. Building on their debut collection, A Dead Name That Learned How to Live and their award-winning self-portraiture series, On Learning How to Live, Golden honors the living siege & sorrow, rage & revival, joy & creation of being Black and trans in America.Alanna Fields (b. 1990, Maryland, USA) is a mixed-media artist and archivist whose work both deconstructs and reconstructs Black queer memory and history through a multidisciplinary engagement with photographic archives. Fields’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Paris Photo, Art Basel Miami, Felix Art Fair LA, and Expo Chicago. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum, The Aldrich ContemporaryMuseum, The High Museum of Art, The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, and The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art. She has presented solo exhibitions at The Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art and Baxter Street Camera Club of NY and participated in group exhibitions at Yossi Milo Gallery, Yancey Richardson Gallery, Latchkey Gallery, Fragment Gallery, Residency Art Gallery, David Castillo Gallery, and the Silver Eye Centerfor Photography, among others.Fields received her MFA in Photography from the Pratt Institute and has given lectures on her work at the Aperture Foundation, Light Work, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Parsons School of Design at The New School, Syracuse University, and Stanford University. Fields is a Gordon Parks Foundation Scholar and Pollock Krasner Foundation grant recipient who has participated in residencies at Silver Arts Projects, Light Work, Baxter St. CCNY, Fountainhead Arts, and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, among others. Her work has been commissioned by and featured in major publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Aperture Magazine, and FOAM Magazine. In 2025, Fields released her first monograph “Unveiling” which spans her work on Black queer archives. Golden (they/them) is a Black gender-nonconforming photographer, author, & educator raised in Hampton, VA (Kikotan land) currently residing in Boston, Massachusetts (Massachusett people & Wampanoag land). They are the author of A Dead Name That Learned How to Live (Game Over Books 2022), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Poetry (Game Over Books 2023), and Reprise (Haymarket Books 2025). Their photographic series On Learning How to Live, an Arnold Newman Prize Finalist (2021), documents Black trans life at the intersections of surviving & living in the United States. Golden is the recipient of a Pink Door Fellowship (2017/2019), an Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Luminaries Fellowship (2019), the Frontier Award for New Poets (2019), a Best of the Net Award (2020), a City of Boston Artist- in-Residence (2020-2021), a Mass Cultural Council Fellowship in Photography (2021), a Women Photograph Project Grant (2021), a Collective Futures Fund Grant (2022), an Aperture/Google Creator Labs Photo Fund Grant (2023), the Queer|Art Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists (2023), and a MacDowell Fellowship (2025). They hold a BFA in Photography & Imaging from New York University. Their published & collaborative work can be found on/in The Yale Review, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Vogue, Muzzle Magazine, Split this Rock, Women Photograph, MFA Boston, Button Poetry, Best of the Net Anthology, Instagram (@goldenthem_), or through their website goldengoldengolden.com. Image © Alanna Fields