Join us during Late Night ICP for Teen Night! Explore our current exhibitions and get your portrait made by Jai Chavez and Marilyn Elisabeth Leal. Later on, Teen Academy students Heaven Murphy, Rónán Selby-Curran, and Torence Sealy join photographer Steven Molina Contreras in conversation.
Torence Sealy is a Brooklyn based photography student. He was born and raised in the Bronx, where he first started taking photography classes with ICP at The Point in 2022. In his work he uses 35mm film and Polaroids to connect with his community and explore newfound friendships with the people he meets throughout New York City.
Rónán Selby-Curran is a current ICP student from NYC. He enjoys photographing nature, wildlife, landscapes, reflections, shadows, different environments and conditions (i.e. rainy, snowy, foggy, sunny, cloudy, overcast, etc.), transportation and architectural cityscapes highlighting the geometry, angles and textures in different lighting. His love for the outdoors started in the Adirondacks at 6 months old, hiking, snowshoeing and paddleboarding. His formal introduction to photography began in the autumn of 2019 at a Queens Botanical Garden pinhole camera workshop, leading to B&W classes at ICP at the Point & Teen Academy. His work has been exhibited in various parks during Photoville Festival in NY for the past 5 years and in San Francisco’s 2021 Presidio "My Parks Moment" exhibition celebrating the reopening of the Presidio Tunnel Tops.
Heaven Murphy (b. Brooklyn) is a multidisciplinary artist using photography as their main medium. Murphy is currently a senior, majoring in art at the High School of Fashion Industries expected to graduate in 2025. Murphy has previously completed the B&W film photo course for social change at The International Center of Photography in 2024, thus leading her to be a part of this 2025 cohort of ICP Imagemakers. From Murphy’s adolescence she took pictures for her mother and sisters which caused photography to reel her in like bait on a fishing pole. Through these enriching experiences, street photography and portraiture came naturally to Heaven. Murphy aims to sharpen her technical skill set whilst defining her creative practice, pushing her images and creating meaningful stories.
Steven Molina Contreras (b. San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Brooklyn-based artist and photographer whose work explores themes of migration, family, and belonging. Rooted in personal history and cultural memory, his images blend documentary aesthetics with performance and vernacular image-making to reimagine domestic and everyday spaces as sites of transformation and resilience.
His work has been exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and has traveled nationally through You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography. His photographs have appeared in Aperture, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Matte Magazine and are held in the collections of the Hood Museum and Light Work. He has been an artist-in-residence at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock. He has lectured at institutions including NYU, Stanford, Bard College, Anderson Arts Center, and Pratt.
Third Thursdays at ICP
On these special evenings, the third Thursday of each month from 5–8 PM, we welcome our community into the museum for no cost. Free Third Thursdays further ICP's dedication to expanding access to see important exhibitions and experience a robust range of programming. We look forward to welcoming you to our space to connect with ICP's community and learn more about the history and future of imagemaking.
Third Thursdays are made possible thanks to an expanded partnership with MPB.
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Headquartered in the creative communities of Brooklyn, Brighton and Berlin, the MPB team includes trained camera experts and seasoned photographers and videographers who bring their passion to work every day to deliver outstanding service.
