Join us at ICP for a conversation between Adraint Bereal, Dr. Deborah Willis, and malaika newsome on the occasion of our latest exhibition, Photobooks USA: 2000-25, featuring Bereal’s The Black Yearbook. Using the impact of the Black Photographer’s Annual as a starting point, Bereal, Willis, and newsome will discuss how frameworks such as the yearbook and family album are employed to share communal histories and its implications for the future of Black storytelling.This program is being offered both in person at ICP and online, 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. About the BookWhen photographer Adraint Bereal graduated from the University of Texas, he self-published an impressive volume of portraits, personal statements, and interviews that explored UT’s campus culture and offered an intimate look at the lives of Black students matriculating within a majority white space. Bereal’s work was inspired by his first photo exhibition at the George Washington Carver Museum in Austin, entitled 1.7, that unearthed the experiences of the 925 Black men that made up just 1.7% of UT’s total 52,000 student body.Now Bereal expands the scope of his original project and visits colleges nationwide, from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to predominantly white institutions to trade schools and more. Rather than dwelling on the monolith of trauma often associated with Black narratives, Bereal is dedicated to using honest dialogue to share stories of true joy and triumph amidst the hardships, prejudices, and internal struggles. Using an exciting and eclectic design approach to accompany the portraits and stories, each individual profile effectively conveys the interviewee’s unique voice, tone, and background.The Black Yearbook reframes society’s stereotypical perception of higher education by representing and celebrating the wide range of Black experiences on campuses. About the SpeakersAdraint Khadafhi Bereal (b. 1998) is an artist from Waco, Texas, based in New York. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Design and Creative Technologies, Bereal’s work untangles the nuances of American culture by interrogating and provoking truth to reveal itself. Working across photography, design, and publishing, he examines how systems of representation shape identity. His debut monograph, The Black Yearbook, expanded a student project into a national portrait of Black collegiate life, revealing the emotional and aesthetic vocabularies of a generation navigating visibility and belonging. Bereal’s work is held in the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and has been exhibited nationally. His upcoming solo exhibition at the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin marks a return to the institution where his practice first took root. Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has affiliated appointments with the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Social & Cultural and the Institute of Fine Arts where she teaches courses on Photography & Imaging, iconicity, and cultural histories visualizing the black body, women, and gender. She is also the director of NYU's Center for Black Visual Culture/Institute for African American Affairs. Her research examines photography's multifaceted histories, visual culture, contemporary women photographers and beauty. She received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and was a Richard D. Cohen Fellow in African and African American Art, Hutchins Center, Harvard University; a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and an Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. Fellow. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received awards from the College Art Association for Writing Art History (2021) and the Outstanding Service Award from the Royal Photographic Society in the UK. She has pursued a dual professional career as an art photographer and as one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography and curator of African diasporic cultures. Willis is the author of Reflections in Black: A Reframing 1840 to the Present, The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship, Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present; Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty; Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers - 1840 to the Present; Let Your Motto be Resistance – African American Portraits; Family History Memory: Photographs by Deborah Willis; VANDERZEE: The Portraits of James VanDerZee; and co-author of The Black Female Body A Photographic History with Carla Williams; Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery with Barbara Krauthamer; and Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs (both titles a NAACP Image Award Winner) malaika newsome is the Curatorial Assistant at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She obtained her Masters in Art History and Archaeology from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts (IFA), focusing on African and African Diasporic Art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She has co-curated projects including the Zora Ilunga Reed’s Intimidation Tactics, the IFA’s Great Hall Exhibition installation by Maia Ruth Lee, Straight Lick as part of “Black Art Sessions” by Ebony Haynes, and Cultivating Collections: Vitreographs, Glass, Works by Black Artists, and Ceramics at Western Carolina University. She has also collaborated with the Atlanta History Center, the High Museum of Art, and MOCA GA.

Join us at ICP for a conversation between Jade Doskow, Mark Lubell, and David Campany on the occasion of our latest exhibition, Photobooks USA: 2000-25, discussing the impactful photobook Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs, which showcases the crowd-sourced photography exhibition that went up just days after the attack. Doskow will speak about the nature of photographing Freshkills Park post 9/11, with Campany and Lubell reflecting on the book’s life and legacy since its publication in 2002. About the BooksHere is New York contains nearly a thousand of the more than five thousand pictures that some three thousand photographers submitted for an ongoing exhibition organized about a week after 9/11. The magnitude and portent of this archive is best conveyed in the following expression: the one picture which will probably come to stand for the World Trade Center catastrophe will be ALL of these pictures. Speaking both to the horror of what happened and to the way it is encountered, this book of color and B&W images produces an irreducible sign of profound recognition. About the SpeakersJade Doskow (b. 1978, Pennsylvania, United States) lives and works in Red Hook, Brooklyn. She received a BA in the Philosophy of Art & Music from New York Unviersity’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and an MFA in Photography & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. In exploring limbo-spaces within urban sites, Doskow’s recurring themes address rewilding and sustainability, architectural repurposing, the urban built environment and public spaces, and all frequently with a focus on New York City-specific environs. Her best-known long-term projects include Freshkills, Lost Utopias, and Red Hook. Doskow’s work is informed by a multitude of sources including literature, music, and local history, often using the photographic medium to question the accuracy of historical record and contemporary realities. Doskow’s work has been exhibited globally, including recently the Staten Island Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Museum London, Asheville Museum of Art, Tracey Morgan Gallery, All Street Gallery, Cornell University, and many others. She is the subject of the 2021 documentary Jade Doskow: Photographer of Lost Utopias. Her work has been reviewed and featured in publications including the New York Times, Hyperallergic, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Aperture, Photograph, Architect, Wired, and Newsweek Japan. Doskow is a contributing environmental photojournalist for the New York Times, a member of the ABC No Rio photography collective, and faculty at the School of Visual Arts, CUNY College of Staten Island, and the International Center of Photography. Doskow is the Photographer-in-Residence of Freshkills Park, New York City. David Campany is Creative Director of the International Center of Photography, New York. He has worked worldwide with institutions including MoMA New York, Tate, Whitechapel Gallery London, Centre Pompidou, Le Bal Paris, ICP New York, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Photographer’s Gallery London, ParisPhoto, PhotoLondon, The National Portrait Gallery London, Aperture, Steidl, MIT Press, Thames & Hudson, MACK and Frieze.

Journalist and editor Amelia Abraham is joined in conversation with artist Linda Simpson to celebrate the release of Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife, Abraham’s latest editorial project during a special late night at ICP. Abraham and Simpson will be signing select titles following the conversation,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. Image: Kary Kwok, Alternative Miss World, London, 1995. © Kary Kwok. From Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife by Amelia Abraham (MACK, 2026). Courtesy of the artist and MACK About the BookThis vivid history of queer nightlife unfolds through photographic works and essays exploring how image-making has both fostered and jeopardized the formation of queer practices and subcultures.Sex, Clubs, Dissent charts an expansive visual history of queer nightlife through the lens of photographers, filmmakers, and artists. Edited by author Amelia Abraham, the book explores how image-making has fostered, and at times jeopardized, the formation of queer practices, subcultures, and forms of resistance. It asks what our decades-long quest to catalogue and understand nightlife spaces through photography and film can tell us about our various relationships with them, and how photography intersects with pleasure, politics, and protest.As much as an assertion that ‘we were here’, images of queer nightlife – real or otherwise – can be erotic, amusing, alienating, violent, or exuberantly joyful, moving us to seek out our own dancefloor, strip club, or sauna. Rather than a comprehensive catalogue or chronology of queer nightlife, Sex, Clubs, Dissent is a love letter to those who went out and stayed out, felt the urge to document or reflect what was happening, or who have used their artmaking to dream new modes of being into existence.With essays and conversations by Amelia Abraham, Brontez Purnell, McKenzie Wark, Rene Matić and Ajamu X, Jack Parlett, Tavia Nyong’o, Adam Zmith, Sita Balani and Sunil Gupta, Ariel Goldberg, Sweatmother, Asa Seresin, and Legacy Russell and Tourmaline About the SpeakersAmelia Abraham is a journalist, editor and author from London. She has written several books, including Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture and she writes regularly for The Guardian, The Observer, Dazed and other titles on queer arts, culture and politics. She is the editor of Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife, a photography survey book bringing together the work of over 85 photographers and artists in and around queer nightlife, including Linda Simpson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sunil Gupta, Lola Flash, and many more. Since emerging from NYC’s East Village drag scene in the late 1980s, Linda Simpson has been a multi-faceted drag queen as a nightlife promoter, journalist, playwright, actress, game-show hostess and publisher of the underground gay magazine My Comrade. Her photos from her formative drag years in the 1980s and ‘90s have been featured in books, magazines, art exhibits and documentaries, as well as in her acclaimed touring slideshow and photo book, both titled The Drag Explosion Header Image: Spyros Rennt, Menergy backs (red light), 2018. © Spyros Rennt. From Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife by Amelia Abraham (MACK, 2026). Courtesy of the artist and MACK

Join us online to learn more about 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.For the online One-Year Certificate program, the application for the program and Scholarships is currently open for the 2027 academic year. The priority deadline for the admission and merit-based scholarship consideration is October 18, 2026. ICP’s Online One-Year Certificate Programs begin in mid-January 2027.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]. Image © Darina Petrova (DOC Online '25)

Yves Saint Laurent and his fashion designs inspired looks and movements around the world, including within the Ballroom Community. The House of St. Laurent, an iconic ballroom house founded in 1982 by Octavia St. Laurent, is known for its boutique exclusivity and elevated fashion sensibility, is an example of this lasting legacy. Ballroom, once underground, has defined a new space for promoting visibility and self-expression within the queer community.Taking inspiration from the iconic New York City Ballroom Scene, join ICP for a special Late Night for Fashion, featuring a conversation with photographer Gerard H. Gaskin and Michael Roberson, about the relationship between fashion and the ballroom community, the importance of photography in bringing visibility to the movement of resilience, followed by a special open to all mini-ball event featuring the categories of Fashion and Runway and hosted by MC Legendary Leggoh and DJ Icon MikeQ.Come early or stay later than usual during one-night-only extended hours to view Yves Saint Laurent and Photography and Photobooks USA, 2000-25. Mini-Ball Categories: FashionYves Saint Laurent created his own fashion institution of sharp, precise tailoring, sheer illusions, glamorously embellished evening wear, and androgynous noir. Bring us a statement look that tells YOUR story! Whether your aesthetic is timelessly classic or avant garde, illustrate your essence within the details. Head-to-toe ovahness, come done! **Note: you do not need to wear YSL, this category is open to interpretation, but inspiration from YSL is encouraged. RunwayPay homage to the designer's legacy and bring to the runway a look pulled out of the Yves Saint Laurent photography archives—creatively re-imagined through your own lens. Winners for each category receive a portrait studio session at ICP, as well as a custom ICP Grand Prize Trophy! About the ParticipantsGerard H. Gaskin is a native of Trinidad and Tobago. His book, Legendary: Inside the House and Ballroom Scene was published in 2013 from Duke University Press. As a freelance Photographer his work is widely published in newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad including: The New York Times, Newsday, Politiken, Black Enterprise, Ebony, Teen People, Caribbean Beat and Inc. Magazine. Additional clientele are North Star Fund, Syracuse University and Colgate University. Gaskin’s photographs have also been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the country and abroad including at the Duke University Gallery, the African-American Museum in Philadelphia, the Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Museum of Arts, CM2A in Madrid, Spain, Galvanize in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Goethe-Institute Accra, Ghana and Fototeca de Cuba Habana Vieja, Cuba. His work is represented in the permanent collections at Duke University, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, the Museum of the City of New York, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Cincinnati Art Museum. Gaskin has won many important awards, grants and residences such as the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize (2012), the Woodstock Center of Photography Arts-In-Residence (2011), Light Work’s Arts-in-Residence (2010). In 2005 he also won the Queen’s Council on the Arts Individual Artists Initiative Award, and in 2002 he was awarded The New York Foundation for the Arts Artist fellowship for Photography. He was also included in the “Gordon Parks’ 90” that brought together 90 of the top black photographers in the United States to celebrate Gordon Parks’ 90th Birthday.Michael Roberson is a multifaceted figure in the LGBTQ+ community, serving as a theologian, public health practitioner, activist, artist, and cultural leader. He holds academic positions at C-RRED, The New School University, and Union Theological Seminary in NYC. Roberson is deeply involved in the House Ball Community, having founded four major houses and co-founded The Ballroom Freedom School. He co-conceptualized the House Lives Matters National Leadership Initiative and edits the “Arts Everywhere/Ballroom Freedom School” publication. His influence extends to mainstream media, having worked as a cultural consultant for the FX series Pose. Roberson’s work focuses on uplifting Black/Latinx LGBTQ+ individuals through various platforms and initiatives.Leggoh JohVera is a legendary voguer, commentator, event producer, and longtime force within the ballroom community. As the Founder and CEO of Open To All Entertainment, he has created platforms that celebrate talent, culture, and community while collaborating on major moments with artists including Beyoncé and Madonna. Known for his commanding presence, quick wit, and unmistakable energy, Leggoh brings both experience and personality to the stage as tonight’s Master of Ceremonies.Michael Cox, known by the stage name MikeQ, is an American DJ, musician, music producer, and prominent figure in the ballroom community. He is the founder of the record label Qween Beat, and has released music with Fade To Mind, Qween Beat, Mad Decent and Night Slugs. . In 2017 he co-founded the "House of Vogue" party in New York City.[11] In 2020 MikeQ was the featured resident DJ for HBO's Legendary. MikeQ’s “Feel’s Like” Featuring ballroom commentator Kevin Jz Prodigy was sampled in 2022 on the Beyoncé “Renaissance” Album on the track “Pure/Honey”. Want to experience more Ballroom? You can find more at OTA hosted at 3 Dollar Bill, 260 Meserole St, Brooklyn, NY 11206. Upcoming Schedule:Sept 28Oct 26Nov 30Dec 14 Image Jenna Bascom

See and be seen this summer on the Lower East Side during ICP’s Late Nights offering extended hours, reduced admission to visit Yves Saint Laurent and Photography and Photobooks USA 2000-25, drink specials at ICP and in the neighborhood, and plenty of photo inspiration to strike a pose in our new Analog Photobooth or at our outdoor Fujifilm instax Portrait studio pop-ups! Learn more about spending your Thursday night at ICP below. Late Nights at ICPOpen till 8 PM with $5 admission to visit Yves Saint Laurent and Photography and Photobooks USA 2000-25.Enjoy a refreshing iced pomegranate Moroccan mint green tea or a cold beer from Brooklyn based brewery, Talea from ICP’s Cafe and explore the latest ICP Incubator Project, Andrea Hernández Briceño: Fire Becomes Spirit, and our new Model 11 Analog Photobooth.Fujifilm instax Street Portrait Pop-upLudlow and Broome Street on select Thursdays:July 16 - Patience OjionukaAugust 13 – Abigail MontesAugust 27 - PoupaySeptember 10 – Justin J WeeSeptember 24 – Landon Nordeman Justin J Wee (he/him) is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist primarily working with lens-based mediums, culinary arts and performance. Whether he’s working with animate bodies or inanimate objects, he strives to convey the magnitude and magnificence of the lived experience. He’s a core member of drag house Judy, represented by Rocket Science Studio, and a 2023 Artist-in-Residence at the Center of Photography, Woodstock. His work has been commissioned and published by organizations and publications including Apple, A24, The New York Times, TIME, Vanity Fair, and HONCHO. Lower East Side Neighborhood SpotsAfter your visit to ICP, stick around the neighborhood for the best in arts and culture! Enjoy a discounted glass of wine when showing your same-day ICP admission ticket at local wine bar, Somm Time (254 Broome Street). Offer available on Thursdays only through September 24. Image Asher Selle

To mark the closing of the Yves Saint Laurent and Photography exhibition on September 28, join us for a special Yves Saint Laurent vintage pop-up market. The event will bring together a select group of vintage fashion dealers specializing in archival Yves Saint Laurent pieces, each presenting a carefully curated selection of fashion and accessories. The Yves Saint Laurent Vintage Pop-Up will take place in the ICP Café from 11 AM—6 PM. No admission required. Meet The VendorsANCIENManifold VintageRaleigh VintageSPRL Header image: Ensemble worn by Edia Vairelli, Haute Couture Spring/Summer 1982 collection, 5 Avenue Marceau, Paris, January 1982. Polaroid by fashion house staff © All rights reserved © Yves Saint Laurent; Tailored suit worn by Anna Karin, Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 1991 collection, 5 Avenue Marceau, Paris, July 1991. Polaroid by fashion house staff © All rights reserved © Yves Saint Laurent Special Thanks Lead support for Yves Saint Laurent and Photography is provided by Saint Laurent. This exhibition is also made possible by the Exhibition Leadership Council, with generous contributions from Charles Burdick, Michael Clinton, Caryl Englander, Renee Harbers Liddell, Almudena Legorreta, Jessica Nagle, Ken Nicholson, Jeffrey and Marjorie Rosen, and Stefano Tonchi, as well as by the ICP Exhibitions Committee members: Luana Alesio, Deborah Brown, Marnie Gelfman, Almudena Legorreta, Vasant Nayak, Elizabeth Rea, Benita Sakin and Helena Sokoloff. Exhibitions at ICP are supported, in part, by Michael Clinton, Caryl Englander, Renee Harbers Liddell, Almudena Legorreta, Jessica Nagle, Ken Nicholson, Jeffrey Rosen, the ICP Board of Trustees, the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Exhibition Partners Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris and the Fondation Pierre Bergé–Yves Saint Laurent. This exhibition was originated by the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris and co-produced with the Rencontres d’Arles in 2025