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84 Ludlow Entrance

Photography Lives Here

The International Center of Photography is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture. Through exhibitions, education programs, community outreach, and public programs, ICP offers an open forum for dialogue about the power of the image, and is a gathering place for the photography community to meet, exchange ideas, and support one another.

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Dayanita Singh

ICP Alum & Infinity Award Winner
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Ian Lewandowski

Ian Lewandowski

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Jon Henry

ICP Faculty
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Keisha Scarville

ICP Alum and Faculty
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Upcoming Events

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Cameras and Coffee: Community Meet-Up Hosted By Nice Film Club (October 2025)
Connect with ICP's community during our monthly Cameras and Coffee social meet-up for photographers, collectors, and camera enthusiasts! During the event, grab a Deadbeat Club coffee and pastries, available in the ICP café.This session of Cameras & Coffee is hosted by Nice Film Club—a full-service film lab and community platform dedicated to empowering film photographers.Drop your favorite photo in this folder to receive complimentary 4x6 prints from Nice Film Club for sharing and connecting with fellow Cameras & Coffee enthusiasts, then afterwards at 1 PM join the Nice Film Club photowalk through the Lower East Side.Cameras and Coffee is held at ICP the second Saturday of each month. The event is free to attend with RSVP. About Nice Film Club Nice Film Club is here to empower the film photography community through modern film photography services. Born in Brooklyn, NY out of a love for those beloved imperfections found on every roll of film. At Nice, we're determined to serve film photographers through high quality photo lab services and a modern web experience. Our service is made for you and we'reexcited to grow our offering with you alongside us. You can drop off your film orders directly at the International Center of Photography (ICP) for development and scanning services by Nice Film Club. Image by Scott Rudd
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A Trillion Sunsets - A Century of Image Overload, International Center of Photography, New York, 2022 curated by David Campany, photo by Jeenah Moon
Final Info Session with Program Leads—Writing and the Photographic Image & Curatorial Practices in Photography Online
Don’t miss the final opportunity to hear directly from Program Leads Alan Huck and Daria Tuminas in this online info session about ICP’s One-Year Certificate Programs in Writing and the Photographic Image and Curatorial Practices in Photography. David Campany, ICP’s Creative Director and the visionary behind these two new programs, will also join the session.They will provide an overview of the program’s curriculum, structure, admissions process, and how to apply. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions and hear directly from both Program Leads and David Campany.Applications for the 2026 Academic Year Are Now Open. The priority deadline for merit-based scholarship consideration is October 19, 2025. ICP’s Online One-Year Certificate Programs begin in mid-January 2026.About the Event FormatThis is an online event held via Zoom. If you have questions, please contact: [email protected]. Image © Jeenah Moon
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Final Info Session with Program Chair—Documentary Practice: Visual Storytelling Online
Join us online for the final info session for ICP’s One-Year Certificate Program in Documentary Practice: Visual Storytelling Online, led by Program Chair Karen Marshall.Karen will provide an overview of the program’s curriculum, structure, admissions process, and how to apply.You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions and hear directly from both the Program Chair and members of the Admissions Team.Applications for the 2026 Academic Year Are Now Open. The priority deadline for merit-based scholarship consideration is October 19, 2026. ICP’s Online One-Year Certificate Programs begin in mid-January 2026.About the Event FormatThis is an online event held via Zoom. If you have questions, please contact: [email protected]. Image © Sayan Hazra (DOC Online '23)
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Sergio Larraín, Cuzco, Peru, 1960. © Sergio Larraín / Magnum Photos
Curator’s Tour— “Sergio Larrain: Wanderings”
Join guest curator Agnès Sire for a guided walking tour of Sergio Larrain: Wanderings on opening day!This is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected] the ExhibitionThe International Center of Photography presents Sergio Larrain: Wanderings, an exhibition consisting of prints drawn entirely from the Magnum Photos archive. Curated by Agnès Sire, former Director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, the exhibition primarily highlights the work Larrain made during the first twenty years of his career, in cities such as Valparaíso, Santiago, Paris and London.Wanderings provides a new perspective on Larrain’s inventive and humanist photography that for decades has remained little seen and seldom exhibited, looking at both the material and spiritual drama of rural and urban life while also charting the subtle evolution of Larrain’s style. Sergio Larrain, Cuzco, Peru, 1960 ©Sergio Larrain / Magnum Photos Header Image credit: ©Scott Rudd for ICP
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Image credit: Naima Green, Half on a baby (DonChristian), 2025. © Naima Green
The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series with Naima Green and Carmen Winant
Join us at the ICP for the second installment of the fall Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer lectures series featuring Naima Green in conversation with Carmen Winant to discuss the role of motherhood in photography, on the occasion of Green’s exhibition Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies. The conversation will be moderated by Elisabeth Sherman, Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Museum of the City of New York, who also curated Green’s exhibition on view at ICP through January 12.This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate programs are automatically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.Naima Green, Half on a Baby (DonChristian), 2025 ©Naima Green Image credit: Carmen Winant About the SeriesThe 2025-2026 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family.ICP is thrilled to honor Naomi Rosenblum’s contribution to the field and to further her life’s work through this lecture series. Naomi Rosenblum was one of the leading photography historians of her generation and the author of A World History of Photography and A History of Women Photographers. The 2024-2025 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family.About the SpeakersNaima Green is an artist, photographer, and educator from New York. Her work is an invitation to participate, observe, and consider safety, utopia, and intimacy. Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Fotografiska New York, Smart Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, International Center of Photography, Houston Center for Photography, Bronx Museum, BRIC, Gallery 102, Gracie Mansion Conservancy, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Arsenal Gallery, amongst others. Naima’s works are in the collections of Barnard College Library, Decker Library at MICA, Fleet Library at RISD, International Center of Photography Library, Leslie-Lohman Museum, MoMA Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Hirsch Library, National Gallery of Art, Olin Library, Cornell University, Smart Museum of Art, Teachers College, Columbia University. She holds an MFA in Photography from ICP–Bard, an MA in Art & Art Educator from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BA in Urban Studies and Sociology from Barnard College.Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Endowed Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University. Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and transnational coalition building. Winant's projects have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Sculpture Center, Wexner Center of the Arts, ICA Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and el Museo Universitario ArteContemporáneo. Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 FCA Artist Honoree and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient. Winant is mother to her two children, Carlo and Rafa, shared with her partner, Luke Stettner.Elisabeth Sherman is the Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Museum of the City of New York. She most recently served as Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at ICP where she curated numerous exhibitions including Sheida Soleimani: Panjereh, Yto Barrada: Part-Time Abstractionist, David Seidner: Fragments, 1977–99, and Muriel Hasbun: Tracing Terruño. Previously, Elisabeth held curatorial roles at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she organized and co-organized many critically acclaimed exhibitions, including Dawoud Bey: An American Project, Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, and Zoe Leonard: Survey, among others. Header Image credit: ©Scott Rudd for ICP
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Fall Exhibitions Opening Day
This event is free with museum admission.Celebrate the start of ICP’s fall season with the opening of three landmark exhibitions. Together, they highlight the breadth of photography’s power to illuminate culture, identity, and the human condition. Be among the first to explore these extraordinary exhibitions.About the ExhibitionsSergio Larrain: WanderingsA landmark exhibition featuring works exclusively from the Magnum Photos archive, curated by Agnès Sire. Wanderings highlights two decades of Larrain’s inventive and humanist photography across Valparaíso, Santiago, Paris, and London, offering a rare look at his evolving style and elusive legacy.Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasiesCurated by Elisabeth Sherman, this bold new series reimagines pregnancy through staged self-portraits, still lifes, and landscapes that blur fact and fiction. Green challenges familiar tropes of motherhood while expanding the visual language around reproductive experience in America.Graciela Iturbide: Serious PlayOrganized with Fundación MAPFRE and curated by Carlos Gollonet, this is the first major New York retrospective of the celebrated Mexican photographer. Featuring nearly 200 works spanning five decades, Serious Play illuminates Iturbide’s profound engagement with indigenous communities, ritual, and the poetic contradictions of everyday life. Image credit: ©Scott Rudd for ICP
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Community Day x Education Open House
Celebrate Community + Creativity at ICP’s Community Day x Education Open HouseICP’s Community Day x Education Open House welcomes visitors to our museum and school for an interactive day exploring ICP’s Open Education program, offering hands-on demos, portfolio reviews, opportunities to connect with faculty, and information tables to learn more about courses and workshops at ICP.The day also includes free admission to see our new exhibitions, Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies, and Sergio Larrain: Wanderings, a chance to connect with local community partners, and the book launch of ICP faculty Sarah Stacke’s collaborative publication, In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous America.Whether you’re just beginning your journey in photography or looking to deepen your practice, this is the perfect opportunity to explore your educational pathway at ICP, discover new possibilities, and connect with a community that values both skill-building and meaningful dialogue.Come celebrate with us, expand your skills, and find inspiration alongside our community of lifelong learners and photographers! Schedule of Events 12 PM – 5 PM, ICP SchoolICP Education Open HousePortfolio Reviews with ICP faculty and peersHands-on Demos a glimpse from our ICP classes that will spark your creativityInformation Tables highlighting our exciting Fall course offeringsOpportunities to meet and connect with our esteemed Open Education faculty 12 PM – 3 PM, Galleries, Floor 2Community Information TablesABC No Rio Photography CollectiveABC No Rio Zine Library 1 PM, Galleries, Floor 3Book Launch & Signing—In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous AmericaA new publication from Brian Adams and Sarah Stacke featuring a collection of photography highlighting work exclusively by Indigenous Americans, shedding new light on the understanding of Indigenous America. 1 PM, GalleriesFall 2025 Exhibitions Tour Join us for a guided walking tour of the exhibitions Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies, and Sergio Larrain Wanderings, led by a museum educator. Lower East Side Arts & Culture Open House ICP's Community Day x Education Open House is part of FabNYC's Open ArtsLES Day! Organized by Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) the Lower East Side Arts & Culture Open House is now in its third year, welcoming folks into cultural spaces without a ticket to a show or the cost of admission. Visit ICP and then explore over 13 organizations opening their doors around the Lower East Side ending at East 4th Street where you can meet folks from 16 different organizations tabling on the block! All organizations will have staff available to greet you & answer questions about their programs! About In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous AmericaThe history of photography–and the Americas–is incomplete without the critical work and perspectives of Indigenous American photographers. Since the 1800s, cameras have been in the hands of Indigenous people, and they have incorporated photography into their lives as creators, patrons, and collectors.Five years ago, photographers Brian Adams and Sarah Stacke set off on a mission to assemble a groundbreaking, digital library of Indigenous photographers from the 19th century to the present. With In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous America, Adams and Stacke expand on that work, creating a one-of-a-kind collection of photographs that offers a first-hand look at the people, cultures, and evolving traditions of Indigenous America while providing a counterhistory to settler-colonial narratives.From Jennie Fields Ross Cobb, the earliest known Indigenous American woman photographer, to Arhuaco documentarian Amado Villafaña Chaparro, through Kapuleiikealoonalani Flores, a Native Hawaiian who was born in 2000, the photographers span many generations as well as multiple Indigenous societies and nations. Each entry includes a biographical sketch of the artist, along with their inspirations and contributions to the photographic medium. About Community PartnersABC No Rio is a volunteer-led nonprofit community center for arts and activism. Since 1980, we have provided a home for the culture of opposition and DIY culture – facilitating cross-pollination between artists and activists committed to current social movements. Image by Scott Rudd.

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Members are the heart of ICP's community. Beyond their involvement in a robust network of imagemakers and image appreciators, ICP's members receive complimentary tickets to all exhibitions, reduced tuition for Open Education courses, invitations to members-only events, and much more.