Join Harlowe and ICP for The Light of Hope: Exploring the Healing Power of Photography, a groundbreaking symposium at the intersection of art and science, where renowned photographers, artists, and medical professionals come together to explore the profound and very real impact of photography on healing trauma. Featu red speakers include James Rice, Dr. Gene Beyt, David Butow, Cheriss May, Katya Gruzglina, Dr. Natalie Gukasyan, Lynn Johnson, Oliver Halfin, and Ana Rosa Orozco.Through thought-provoking discussions, interactive experiences, and hands-on sessions, we will uncover how photography has the power to document, process, and ultimately rewire our brain to unlock our potential.Join for a single talk, a segment, or the full day of programming. This symposium is designed to meet you where you are—whether you want to drop in for a session that resonates or engage deeply in the full day experience.Image by David Butow

Join us for a guided walking tour of the exhibitions Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, and American Job 1940-2011.About the ExhibitionsWeegee: Society of the Spectacle aims to reconcile Weegee's broad photographic career through an investigation of his focus on a critique of 20th century popular culture and its insatiable appetite for spectacle.To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography reimagines what an archive can be or might look like—more than just a means of recuperating the past, these artists utilize the archive as a form for imagining new futures.American Job: 1941-2011 surveys the photographic response to labor organizing and strike activity, race and gender discrimination in labor, organized labor’s role in politics, labor and activism, and the intersection of labor and the social changes wrought by the economic restructurings of the twentieth century.

Registration for this free event will open soon.Join the Sanitation Foundation’s Big Spring Clean initiative, a month of cleanups and activities championing New Yorkers to help care for the places they love the most in the city.Meet at ICP for a Lower East Side community clean-up, led by the Sanitation Foundation and help make a direct impact while learning about city sanitation efforts. Unlock free admission to the museum for the day by picking up a bag's worth of trash during the event and create your own sunprint using the items collected during the clean-up.Tools, gloves, and a route will be provided. Registration is encouraged.Following the clean-up (11 AM–1 PM) join ICP museum educator Carlos Nunez on the sidewalk in front of ICP for a found object photo-based activity and learn more about using found objects to engage with photographic processes.The Sanitation Foundation is the official non-profit partner of the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY). Their mission is to support the work of DSNY to help clean up the city and reduce waste sent to landfill.

Join the International Center of Photography (ICP) and the New Museum for a neighborhood tour and photo workshop in the Lower East Side.New Museum Teaching Artist Rosed Serrano will lead a tour from the Bowery to Essex Street, highlighting the homes of photographers Robert Frank and Weegee, among other stops in the neighborhood.Then, at ICP, take part in a photo workshop with ICP Museum Educator Carlos Nunez, creating expressive self-portraits inspired by Weegee: Society of the Spectacle.This tour meets, rain or shine, in front of the New Museum at 235 Bowery. Please come dressed ready to explore the neighborhood streets.

This event is free with museum admission.Join us for a guided walking tour of the exhibitions Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, and American Job 1940-2011.About the ExhibitionsWeegee: Society of the Spectacle aims to reconcile Weegee's broad photographic career through an investigation of his focus on a critique of 20th century popular culture and its insatiable appetite for spectacle.To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography reimagines what an archive can be or might look like—more than just a means of recuperating the past, these artists utilize the archive as a form for imagining new futures.American Job: 1941-2011 surveys the photographic response to labor organizing and strike activity, race and gender discrimination in labor, organized labor’s role in politics, labor and activism, and the intersection of labor and the social changes wrought by the economic restructurings of the twentieth century. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected].

Join ICP at the American Museum of Natural History for a special screening of Sasha Wortzel’s River of Grass, introduced by curator Elisabeth Sherman and presented as part of the Mead Film Festival. ICP Members are eligible to receive discounted tickets to the event. Explore Wortzel’s work currently on view in To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, on view through May 5th. Learn more about ICP Membership here.About the FilmThere is no place in the world quite like the Everglades, which serves a fundamental role in the Florida ecosystem. Betty Osceola, a member of the Miccosukee tribe, has defended the Floridian swamplands for decades against fracking, agribusiness, and water pollution, protesting swamp drainage with multi-day prayer walks along major highways. The film’s title evokes a Miccosukee phrase describing the Everglades, emphasizing the region’s natural resilience in the face of climate devastation.About the GuestsElisabeth Sherman is an independent curator and formerly the Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the International Center of Photography (ICP). At ICP, she curated exhibitions including To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, as well as Yto Barrada: Part Time Abstractionist, ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845–2019, David Seidner: Fragments, 1977-99 and Muriel Hasbun: Tracing Terruño, the first NYC survey of multidisciplinary artist Muriel Hasbun. Sherman joined ICP from the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions including Dawoud Bey: An American Project (2019–2022), Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950 -2019 and the Whitney’s presentation of Zoe Leonard: Survey.Image by Sasha Wortzel

Weegee: Society of the Spectacle closes on May 5, 2025. This exhibition brings together the gritty realism of Weegee’s New York crime photography with the surreal glamour of his later Hollywood images, offering a compelling investigation into his career-long critique of 20th-century popular culture and its unrelenting hunger for spectacle.Praised for shedding new light on one of photography’s most enigmatic figures, the show invites visitors into the psyche of an artist who, as Hyperallergic notes, was “a self-made legend,” and whom The Guardian describes as “of his time and so far ahead of it.”Don’t miss your final chance to experience this unforgettable journey through the eye—and mind—of Weegee.