The International Center of Photography celebrates the outstanding achievements in photography and art with the Infinity Awards Gala on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at Tisch Skylights at The Shed. The Infinity Awards honor exceptional achievements in contemporary photography, photojournalism, media, fine art, and publishing. All proceeds from the event benefit ICP’s initiatives to support artists, foster community engagement, and expand our vital programs.
The 2026 Infinity Awards Co-Chairs are ICP Trustees Jessica Nagle and Stefano Tonchi.
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Claire Vaucher Curley, Special Events Manager, at [email protected].
About the Infinity Awards
Since 1985, the ICP Infinity Awards have recognized major contributions and emerging talent in the fields of photojournalism, art, fashion photography, and publishing.
Past recipients include Berenice Abbott, Lynsey Addario, Richard Avedon, Ariella Azoulay, David Bailey, Poulomi Basu, Harry Benson, Susan Meisalas, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Roy DeCarava, Elliott Erwitt, Harold Evans, Larry Fink, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Robert Frank, Adam Fuss, David Goldblatt, Paul Graham, David Guttenfelder, Mishka Henner, André Kertész, Steven Klein, William Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, Annie Leibovitz, Helen Levitt, Mary Ellen Mark, Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Ryan McGinley, Duane Michals, Daidō Moriyama, Zanele Muholi, Zora J Murff, James Nachtwey, Shirin Neshat, Gordon Parks, Gilles Peress, Walid Raad, Wendy Red Star, Eugene Richards, Sebastião Salgado, Malick Sidibé, Lorna Simpson, Cindy Sherman, Ming Smith, Peter Van Atgmael, and Ai Weiwei, among others.
Past Infinity Award attendees include Hailey Baldwin, Hamish Bowles, Hugh Jackman, Naomi Campbell, Grace Coddington, Bella Hadid, Carolina Herrera, Arianna Huffington, Karlie Kloss, Alexandra Richards, Leelee Sobieski, and Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor.
About the 2026 Honorees
![]() | Joel Meyerowitz - Lifetime Achievement Award Joel Meyerowitz (born in New York, 1938) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. Celebrated as a pioneer of color photography, he is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities awards, and a recipient of The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal. His most recent exhibitions have been at Tate Modern, and the Picasso Museum in Malaga. He has published 56 books. |
![]() | Haruka Sakaguchi - Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Award Haruka Sakaguchi (b. 1990, Osaka, Japan) is a freelance photographer based in New York City. Her work explores themes of cultural memory and intergenerational trauma, often tracing overlooked histories through intimate portraiture and long-form documentary practice. |
![]() | Betty Catroux - Image Icon Award Betty Catroux was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Carmen Saint and Elim O’Shaughnessy. She became the unique and everlasting muse of Yves Saint Laurent, whose work she inspired for decades. Celebrated by many of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, Catroux remains one of fashion’s most iconic figures worldwide. She has been married throughout her life to French interior designer François Catroux, with whom she has two children, Maxime and Daphné. Image caption: Photograph by Steven Meisel © Steven Meisel |
![]() | Collier Schorr - Commercial and Editorial Photography Award Collier Schorr (b. 1963, New York City, USA) Lives and works in New York, NY; Professor at Yale University. |
![]() | Tarrah Krajnak - Photographic Art and New Media Award Tarrah Krajnak (b. 1979, Lima, Peru) is an artist working across photography, performance, and poetry. Krajnak lives and works in Los Angeles where she is an Associate Professor of Art at UCLA. She is currently a research fellow at the Wissenschaftkolleg zu Berlin. Krajnak is represented by Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne/Paris. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Recontres d'Arles, a Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies, and a Howard Foundation Fellowship among other awards. She has published three books including El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan (DAIS 2021), Master Rituals II: Weston's Nudes (TBW 2022) and RePose (FW Books 2023). Her work has been featured in Aperture, British Journal of Photography, The Eyes Journal, and European Photography. Krajnak’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Pinault Collection, Paris, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, among others. |




