This event is free with museum admission. No RSVP required for ICP members.Join us for weekly guided walking tours of the exhibitions: Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation, HARD COPY NEW YORK and Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré. About the ExhibitionsEugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation While Atget's work has been celebrated worldwide for documenting the lost Paris, this exhibition marks the first deep dive into how his reputation was built, and the pivotal role of Berenice Abbott, the photographer who championed his legacy.HARD COPY NEW YORK Exploring the contemporary use of photocopied images through works by industry-leading photographers including Stephen Shore, Daniel Arnold, Collier Schorr, Jerry Hsu, and others.Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré How does landscape photography reveal more than geographic facts? Latitudes brings together work by Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré that pushes beyond lanscape photography's traditional boundaries into evoking euphoric sensations, challenging colonial historical narratives, and expanding the scope of immersion. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery and is included with admission; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Image by Pasinee Pramunwong

This event is free with museum admission. No RSVP required for ICP members.Join us for weekly guided walking tours of the exhibitions: Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation, HARD COPY NEW YORK and Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré. About the ExhibitionsEugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation While Atget's work has been celebrated worldwide for documenting the lost Paris, this exhibition marks the first deep dive into how his reputation was built, and the pivotal role of Berenice Abbott, the photographer who championed his legacy.HARD COPY NEW YORK Exploring the contemporary use of photocopied images through works by industry-leading photographers including Stephen Shore, Daniel Arnold, Collier Schorr, Jerry Hsu, and others.Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré How does landscape photography reveal more than geographic facts? Latitudes brings together work by Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré that pushes beyond lanscape photography's traditional boundaries into evoking euphoric sensations, challenging colonial historical narratives, and expanding the scope of immersion. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery and is included with admission; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Image by Pasinee Pramunwong

This event is sold out. Walk-ins with museum admission ticket are allowed within capacity. Join us at ICP to celebrate the release of Larry Sultan’s Water Over Thunder: Selected Writings (MACK, $60), with a program focusing on the writing and pedagogy that informed Sultan’s landmark photographs. The afternoon will include a screening of a selection of shorts Sultan admired as well as readings by Susan Meiselas, Jason Fulford, Jonathan Lethem, Rebecca Bengal, and Tamara Jenkins, moderated by Philip Gefter. This program is offered in person at ICP on New York City’s Lower East Side. Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5 and do not include access to ICP’s galleries. Add on admission to the museum and arrive early to see our current exhibitions Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation, HARD COPY NEW YORK and Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré on view until May 4, 2026. About the BookLarry Sultan was one of the most important and celebrated photographers of the twentieth century, but his lifelong commitment to writing is less well known. Water Over Thunder is the first publication devoted to Sultan’s wide-ranging use of writing as a personal, artistic, and pedagogic tool. The selected texts – many unpublished until now – come from Sultan’s numerous journals and notebooks, encompassing reflections on his teaching and art practice, drafts for short stories, vivid dream diaries, and polished essays. Interspersed throughout are extracts from Sultan’s eloquent public lectures and interviews, illuminating the questions he investigated throughout his life and emphasizing the thematic underpinnings of his best known series: Pictures from Home, Evidence (with Mike Mandel), and The Valley. Throughout these various writings, water appears as an important literal and metaphorical force. The book’s title is derived from an early draft of Pictures from Home in which Sultan writes about the process of beginning a new artistic project: ‘Everything is in motion, spinning off of surfaces and slamming against shadowy forms ... it seems impossible to find a break in the surface.’This volume is illustrated throughout with previously unseen materials from Sultan’s archive: marked contact sheets, outtakes, scouting shots, selections from his found photo collection, and layout pages from his book maquettes. As a whole, Water Over Thunder illuminates Sultan’s extraordinary way of working and forms an intimate portrait of an artist thinking through his craft and the world around him in real time.About the ArtistLarry Sultan grew up in California’s San Fernando Valley, which became a source of inspiration for a number of his projects. His work blends documentary and staged photography to create images of the psychological as well as physical landscape of suburban family life. Sultan’s pioneering book and exhibition Pictures From Home (1992) was a decade long project that features his own mother and father as its primary subjects, exploring photography’s role in creating familial mythologies. Using this same suburban setting, his book, The Valley (2004) examined the adult film industry and the area’s middle-class tract homes that serve as pornographic film sets. Katherine Avenue, (2010) the exhibition and book, explored Sultan’s three main series, Pictures From Home, The Valley, and Homeland along side each other to further examine how Sultan’s images negotiate between reality and fantasy, domesticity and desire, as the mundane qualities of the domestic surroundings become loaded cultural symbols. In 2012, the monograph, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel was published to examine in depth the thirty plus year collaboration between these artists as they tackled numerous conceptual projects together that includes Billboards, How to Read Music In One Evening, Newsroom, and the seminal photography book Evidence, a collection of found institutional photographs, first published in 1977.Larry Sultan’s work has been exhibited and published widely and is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he was also recognized with the Bay Area Treasure Award in 2005. Sultan served as a Distinguished Professor of Photography at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946, Larry Sultan passed away at his home in Greenbrae, California in 2009. Rebecca Bengal is the author of Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists, published by Aperture with a foreword by Joy Williams. Her short fiction, essays, interviews, and journalism have been published in numerous magazines, journals, and newspapers, including a story in collaboration with Alec Soth about Larry Sultan’s Pictures from Home, for The New York Times. She is a contributing editor at Oxford American, a former editor at American Short Fiction and Vogue, and an alum of both The Onion and DoubleTake. Among her collaborations with photographers are short stories for Justine Kurland’s Girl Pictures, Kristine Potter’s Dark Waters, and Carolyn Drake’s Knit Club, as well as essays for Paul Graham’s But Still It Turns and reporting from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation with Alessandra Sanguinetti and with Mitch Epstein. Originally from western North Carolina by way of Austin, Texas, she lives in New York City and teaches writing in the Bard Photography Program. She is at work on a novel and stories, and a book about film, music, photography, catastrophe, language, and time. Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer and has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1976. She has authored and edited eleven books, including Carnival Strippers, Nicaragua and Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History and co-directed three films. Meiselas is well known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Her photographs are included in American and international collections. She has served as the President of the Magnum Foundation since its inception in 2007. The Magnum Foundation supports the next generation of in-depth documentary photographers. Philip Gefter is the author of Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Bloomsbury); two biographies: What Becomes a Legend Most: The Biography of Richard Avedon (Harper); Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe (Norton/Liveright), for which he received the 2014 Marfield Prize, the national award for arts writing; and a collection of essays, Photography After Frank (Aperture). He was on staff at the New York Times for over fifteen years as the page one picture editor, the picture editor for culture, and as a photography critic for the paper. He produced the 2011 documentary, Bill Cunningham New York. He lives in New York City. Jonathan Lethem is the author of Brooklyn Crime Novel, Chronic City, and eleven other novels. His art writing was collected in Cellophane Bricks (Ze Books) in 2024. Jason Fulford is a photographer and co-founder of J&L Books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a frequent lecturer at universities, and has led workshops across the globe. Fulford’s photographs have been described as open metaphors; as an editor and an author, a focus of his work has been how meaning is generated through association. His monographs include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), Hotel Oracle (2013), Contains: 3 Books (2016), Clayton’s Ascent(2018),The Medium is aMess(2018),Picture Summer on Kodak Film(2020), and The Heart Is a Sandwich (2023). He is co-author with Tamara Shopsin of the photobook for children This Equals That (2014),co-editor with Gregory Halpern of The Photographer’s Playbook (2014), guest editor of Der Greif Issue 11, editor of Photo No-Nos (2021), co-editor with Julie Ault and Jordan Weitzman of Ordinary Things Will Be Signs For Us: Photographs by Corita (2023), and editor of Bruno Munari 47 Fotos (2024). Tamara Jenkins is the writer and director of the films Private Life, The Savages, and Slums of Beverly Hills as well as several award-winning shorts. Her work has screened at the New York Film Festival, Telluride, Cannes, Sundance, and MoMA. She is the recipient of an Academy Award nomination, an Independent Spirit Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Images by Larry Sultan

As Jon Henry: Stranger Fruit comes to a close, we invite you to experience this powerful installation in ICP’s Incubator Space, which brings together photography, writing, and archival materials to confront the ongoing epidemic of police killings of Black men in the United States.For several years, Henry traveled across the country photographing Black mothers holding their sons in poses that echo Renaissance depictions of the Virgin Mary and Christ, alongside portraits of the mothers alone. These images, paired with the mothers’ own words, speak to the ever-present possibility of loss and the emotional weight carried long after public attention fades.For this presentation, Henry revisited his archives, assembling documents, maps, and ephemera that trace the development of Stranger Fruit. This act of transparency offers visitors insight into both the creative and administrative labor behind a long-term project, revealing how deeply personal work is shaped over time.Stranger Fruit is on view in ICP’s Incubator Space on the ground floor and is free and open to the public during museum and café hours.

ICP’s onsite One-Year Certificate Program priority deadline for admission and merit-based scholarships has been extended to March 15, 2026. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn what makes a strong application to ICP’s onsite One-Year Certificate Programs, including:Creative PracticesDocumentary Practice and Visual JournalismIn this session, you will receive an overview of key admission deadlines, the academic timeline, program structure, tuition, and scholarship opportunities. You’ll also gain insight into what the Admissions Committee looks for in successful applicants and have the chance to ask questions directly to the Admissions Team.Apply by March 15, 2026 for priority admission and scholarship consideration.ICP’s onsite One-Year Certificate Programs begin in mid-August 2026 at our New York City campus.About the Event Format This is an online event held via Zoom. Please register in advance for this free event. ZOOM LINK HereIf you have questions about the event, please contact [email protected] by Gabrielle Ravet

Join us at ICP as renowned photographer Ryudai Takano is joined in conversation by art historian Emiko Inoue and artist Elle Pérez. Takano, Inoue, and Pérez will discuss queer representation beyond the body, the republication of Takano’s seminal photobook In My Room (2005) as a new edition titled In My Room Revisited (2026), as well as their recent exhibition Takano Ryudai: kasubaba Living through the ordinary, recently on view at Hiroshima MOCA and the Tokyo Museum of Photographic Art. Throughout his thirty-year career as a photographer, Ryudai Takano has explored a wide range of themes, from gender and sexuality to the politics of Tokyo’s urban landscapes, and more recently, the visual and conceptual possibilities of shadows.This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5 and include access to ICP’s galleries. Arrive early to see our current exhibitions Eugene Atget: The Making of a Reputation, Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré, and HARD COPY NEW YORK, on view through May 4, 2026.This program is supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. Ryudai Takano, 2015.10.28.#a28 from the series kasubaba 2, 2015 ©︎ Ryudai Takano Courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Associates About the SpeakersRyudai Takano has been engaged in his artistic practice on the theme of sexuality since 1994, in 2005 winning the Kimura Ihei Award for In My Room, a collection of photographs that attempt to give visual expression to the ambiguities that lie in the space between the dichotomies of man or woman, homosexual or heterosexual. Since then, he has produced a number of works viewing the “down there” matter of sexual desire in the context of its relationship to the likes of identity and social norms, including How to contact a man, which explores the theme of sexuality in pornographic format; and With me, whose unguarded expressions of sexuality led to trouble with the police. In addition, Takano has produced a series that questions the notion of a hierarchy of value in visual representation, including the Reclining Woo-Man series of “unmarketable” body images; and Kasubaba, which captures very familiar yet neglected parts of the distinctively Japanese urban landscape. Since the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011, Takano has been engaged in various projects on the theme of shadows. In 2021, Takano had his first museum solo exhibition TAKANO RYUDAI: DAILY PHOTOGRAPHS 1999-2021, at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan. Awarded The 72nd Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in 2021, and the 38th Higashikawa Awards’ Domestic Photographer Award in 2022. In 2025, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography held Takano’s solo exhibition Takano Ryudai: kasubaba Living through the ordinary as the first of a series of exhibitions commemorating its 30th anniversary.Elle Pérez is an artist from the Bronx, New York, who lives and works in New York City. Pérez primarily works in photography and moving image, depicting intimate moments, emotional exchanges, and visceral details within their portraits, landscapes, and films. Recent solo exhibitions include “The World is Always Again Beginning, History with the Present,” The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2025); “guabancex,” 47 Canal, New York (2023); “Devotions,” Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2023); “Devotions,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2021); “from sun to sun,” Public Art Fund, New York (2019) and “Diablo,” MoMA PS1, New York (2018). They participated in the 2022 Venice Biennale, the 2022 New England Triennial, and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Recent group exhibitions include Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (2025); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2023); Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX (2022); Renaissance Society, Chicago (2020); Barbican Centre, London (2020); and Brooklyn Museum, New York (2019), among others. Their work is held in public collections at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, CA; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others. They will be publishing a new book with Aperture to be released in Fall 2026.Emiko Inoue (she/they) is an art historian based in Tokyo, specializing in modern and contemporary art, as well as feminist and queer theory. She received the Feminist Institute Research Award for her master’s thesis at Hunter College, CUNY, where she focused on Mitsuko Tabe, a Japanese woman artist active in the 1960s. Currently, she is interested in the relationship between the “formative” years of queer theory in 1990s Japan and its ambiguous modes of representation.Header Image: Ryudai Takano, Wearing a red leather coat, 2002 ©︎ Ryudai Takano Courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Associates

This event is free with museum admission. No RSVP required for ICP members.Join us for weekly guided walking tours of the exhibitions: Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation, HARD COPY NEW YORK and Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré. About the ExhibitionsEugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation While Atget's work has been celebrated worldwide for documenting the lost Paris, this exhibition marks the first deep dive into how his reputation was built, and the pivotal role of Berenice Abbott, the photographer who championed his legacy.HARD COPY NEW YORK Exploring the contemporary use of photocopied images through works by industry-leading photographers including Stephen Shore, Daniel Arnold, Collier Schorr, Jerry Hsu, and others.Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré How does landscape photography reveal more than geographic facts? Latitudes brings together work by Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré that pushes beyond lanscape photography's traditional boundaries into evoking euphoric sensations, challenging colonial historical narratives, and expanding the scope of immersion. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery and is included with admission; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Image by Pasinee Pramunwong