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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

ICP Faculty
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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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ICP Community Maker’s Market x Late Night
Visit ICP during Late Night for the ICP Community Maker’s Market to shop homemade prints, goods, and items from ICP’s incredible community including students, faculty, alumni, and staff. Participating Vendors Hari Priya Vangaru ICP Alumni 2024 Josefina Fernandez Moran Sofia Kayumova Amy Touchette Value Form Studio 21 Alina Patrick Matthew Logan Silvia Saponaro Yuvan Kumar Patricia Voulgaris Alexey Yurenev Lili Bradford + Quiddity Collective Tickets are $5 and include admission to "Look Up: 2025 ICP Graduates Exhibition."Image by Asher Selle
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Film Screening—Storytelling in Fractured Times
Join us for a screening of “The Fracturing of the American Dream,” a short film produced by ICP community members, Maximilian Ihlenburg, Stephen Cummings, Carolina Herrera, and Kenna Beban. After the screening, ICP alumni João Pina will moderate a panel discussion around the considerations journalists face when covering sensitive topics. About our speakersMaximilian Ihlenburg (b. 1997, Germany) is a filmmaker and photographer with an academic background in Visual Geographies. His work includes the long-term photo project Not The Amazon, which focuses on research in Europe’s last wild forests, and the documentary Blood Wood about endangered old-growth forests in Romania, which premiered at the UN Environment Program in 2024. Since 2023, he has produced video contributions on forest protection for ARD Germany and the European Parliament. After moving to New York in 2024, he began UNseen Diplomacy, a photo project documenting behind-the-scenes work at the UN Environment Program. Since October 2024, he has been working on The Seaport That Never Was and the short film New York’s Birdman, which addresses the conflict of protecting the endangered Piping Plover in New York.Stephen Cummings is a photographer and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He studied painting and drawing at Arizona State University (BFA 2007) and the University of Washington (MFA 2010), and is a recent graduate of the documentary photography and visual journalism program at the International Center of Photography. He has worked in politics, including on presidential campaigns for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and has photographed for campaigns and causes including When We All Vote, Cory Booker for President, and Sunrise Movement.Carolina Herrera is a multimedia visual storyteller based in New York City, focusing on migration and identity. Her work often centers on Latino families, with a special emphasis on children, while also turning inward to examine her own family history and generational trauma. Through a documentary lens, she weaves the personal with the political, highlighting overlooked narratives with empathy and depth. Born in Buenos Aires to Peruvian parents, Herrera studied Graphic Design and photojournalism before transitioning from to visual storytelling. Her volunteer work has taken her from animal rescue efforts in Argentina to educational support in Kenya and child advocacy in India. She founded Amico, a pet photography studio, in 2021 and contributed to OhMyDog magazine, capturing the connection between public figures and their pets. Her personal projects include Querida Caro, a reflection on her identity, and The Weight We Carry, which explores generational grief in her family. Currently, she is documenting a Colombian family’s asylum journey in A Long Road Home produced as part of the One-Year Certificate Program in Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism at the International Center of Photography. Herrera brings quiet optimism and emotional sensitivity to every story she tells—both personal and collective.Kenna Beban is a photographer and journalist from the Bay Area, California. She studied Journalism at NYU and is a recent graduate of ICP, where her work focused on the role of church and ritual in forming communities, and the impacts of changing immigration policies on refugee resettlement programs.João Pina is a freelance photographer born in Portugal in 1980. He began working as a professional photographer at age eighteen, and graduated from the International Center of Photography’s Photojournalism and Documentary Photography program in New York in 2005. Pina’s photographs have been published in D Magazine, Days Japan, El Pais, Expresso, GEO, La Vanguardia, New York Times, New Yorker, Newsweek, Stern, Time, and Visão, among others. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2017/2018 and is a faculty member of the International Center of Photography in New York, and a regular lecturer and teacher of photography workshops.
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Education Open House
Join us for a free, all-ages evening celebrating creativity, connection, and learning at the International Center of Photography. Whether you're interested in taking your first class, are a returning student seeking to learn a new skill, or looking to explore options for a child or teen, ICP offers a variety of programs for all.Open House Programs Include:Info sessions for educational offerings at 6 and 7 PMA guided tour of classrooms, darkrooms, and studios at 5:45, 6:15, 6:45 and 7:15 PMFaculty, staff, and current student meet-and-greetBookmaking demoStudent guided tours of Look Up: Recent Graduates Exhibition OpeningCamera Q&ACheck out our cameras and bring your own if you have any gear questions Faculty guided critique sessionsBring 3-10 images printed or digital files on a thumb drive to participate Cyanotype printing workshopBring large negatives, digital negatives, or found items to contact print Portrait studioBring your best smile! RSVP here. Image by Sara Konradi
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ICP Photobook Club: Tommy Kha
Explore ICP’s photobook library during ICP’s Photobook Club, a community meet-up for book enthusiasts, photographers, and lovers of printed images. Bring your favorite photobook, zine, or other image focused publication to share while exploring monthly selections from the ICP stacks during this community-building event.From 11AM - 12PM, explore selections from photographer Tommy Kha in celebration of Asian Heritage Month. At 12 PM, Kha will share about his practice and the photobooks that have inspired him.ICP’s reading library contains over 20,000 books and periodicals. The reading room is currently open to the public during ICP’s monthly Photobook Club, to researchers by appointment, and to members during Library Member Hours. Learn more about ICP’s Library here.Tommy Kha (b. Memphis, Tennessee) lives in Brooklyn, NY. Kha received his Photography MFA from Yale University where he now teaches. He is a recipient of the Hayes Prize, previously, he received the Next Step Award, Foam Talent, and NYSCA/NYFA Photography Fellow.His work has been published in The New York Times, the New Yorker, and Foam. He has had solo shows at Higher Pictures Generation, Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York, and Blue Sky Gallery.He joined Higher Pictures Generation in 2022. His first major publication, Half, Full, Quarter was published by Aperture in February 2023. His first museum show will open at the Addison Gallery of American Art in September 2025.
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Look Up: 2025 ICP Recent Graduates Exhibition Closing Day
As we prepare to say goodbye to Look Up: 2025 ICP Recent Graduates Exhibition, we honor the creativity and hard work of the students whose work has filled our galleries with new stories and fresh energy. June 1 marks the closing of this year’s graduate exhibition, and we encourage you to take this final opportunity to view the projects, support the artists, and be inspired by what’s possible when education, experimentation, and passion come together.
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ICP x Photoville
Join ICP on June 7 and 8 for Opening Weekend at Photoville! Photoville is a free, open-air photo festival that runs from June 7-22 and is focused on amplifying the voices of visual storytellers and connecting them to a worldwide diverse audience. It increases access to photography through a wide range of educational community initiatives and exhibitions throughout the city.Photoville 2025 will kick off at Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8 with Opening Weekend, a jam-packed two days of workshops, artist-led walking tours, and other activities for the whole family.Join ICP at Photoville to view our banner exhibition, "MIGRATION and MOVEMENT," workshops that engage the whole family in learning the fundamentals of photography, photowalks, portfolio reviews and more, all while exploring the DUMBO neighborhood!Saturday, June 7Brooklyn Bridge Street Photography Walk11:00 AM–1:00 PMHone your street photography skills with a hands-on photo walk across the Brooklyn Bridge! In this image making activity, we will meet at ICP on the Lower East Side and walk downtown across the Brooklyn Bridge, ending at Photoville in Emily Warren Roebling Plaza. While learning basic photographic techniques, participants will use whatever image making device they have (smartphone, iPad, camera, etc.) to document what stands out most to them. The photo walk will last approximately 2 hours and is led by ICP alumni Lucia Buricelli whose work can be seen on view at Photoville this year, and ICP Faculty Hannah La Follette Ryan.Meet at ICP, 84 Ludlow Street to join. Register to attend here. Drop-in Activity12:00-2:00 PMMaking Change: Posters, Buttons and Polaroids for New Climate FuturesInspired by the works of Ed Burtynsky, participants will create monotypes frames following the rhythms and patterns of nature (Waves, rocks, wind, leaves). The frames will then be used to hold a polaroid portrait of the participant. Led by ICP Museum Educator Carlos NunezButton-making station where participants could choose from pre-selected images or draw their own designs to turn into buttons.No prior registration necessary. Portfolio Reviews2:30-5:30 PMReceive key feedback and guidance on your photographs and stories, and learn which courses at ICP could be right for you! Led by ICP faculty, Photoville attendees are invited to sign-up for one-on-one portfolio reviews of their work.Sign up to participate in this portfolio review in person starting at 12:30 PM at the ICP Tent. Spaces will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. Limited spaces available. Bring your work printed or on a personal, charged, laptop or device. Sunday, June 8Portfolio Reviews2:30-5:30 PMReceive key feedback and guidance on your photographs and stories, and learn which courses at ICP could be right for you! Led by ICP faculty, Photoville attendees are invited to sign-up for one-on-one portfolio reviews of their work.Sign up to participate in this portfolio review in person starting at 12:30 PM at the ICP Tent. Spaces will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. Limited spaces available. Bring your work printed or on a personal, charged, laptop or device. MIGRATION and MOVEMENT at Brooklyn Bridge ParkMigration and Movement brings together the work of two contemporary photographers, Lucia Buricelli and Jutharat 'Poupay' Pinyodoonyachet, both alumni of ICP's full-time programs. The projects explore themes related to relocation, displacement, and departure of people. The images by these two photographers slice American life into bright flashpoints that illuminate chaotic elements of consumerism, immigrant culture, and synthetic patriotism.Curated by Martha Naranjo Sandova.ICP at THE POINT: Many Mirrors at Barretto Point ParkICP at THE POINT: Many Mirrors is an exhibition of photographs by students from the International Center of Photography’s partnership with THE POINT CDC.Based in the South Bronx and launched in 1997, the program is a year-round collaboration that teaches analog and digital photography, critical thinking, writing, and public speaking with the goal of fostering self-esteem, community development, and social change. The program includes weekly after-school classes for preteens, teens, and young adult. Image © Lucia Buricelli, Jutharat 'Poupay' Pinyodoonyachet.
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Admissions Team Q&A—Onsite One-Year Certificate Programs
Join our Admissions Team to learn more about the One-Year Certificate Program structure and what we look for in a successful application.The priority application deadline for ICP's One-Year Programs has been extended to March 16, 2025. Apply now to join us for the fall of 2025.About the Event FormatThis is an online event held via Zoom. If you have questions, please contact: [email protected].

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ICP's museum, school, bookstore, and café are located at 84 Ludlowm St. in New York's historic Lower East Side. 

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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.