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 Awards
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.
Her projects have taken her around the world—from documenting atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to photographing former incarcerees and descendants of America’s WWII concentration camps, to creating satirical portraits of Hollywood actors typecast in stereotypical roles. In recent years, she directed Loyal American, a short film produced in partnership with the National Geographic Society, expanding her storytelling into moving image.
Haruka’s clients and collaborators include National Geographic, The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The New Yorker, Smithsonian Magazine, and The Washington Post, among many others. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, including at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Milan, and Photoville in New York and Los Angeles. She is the recipient of the 2025 CENTER Socially Engaged Award, a 2023 National Geographic Storytelling Grant, a 2021 Duke Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award, and the 2020 Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award for Photo Essay. She was also recognized by Pictures of the Year International (POY) as a finalist in 2021.
Through her documentary practice, Haruka seeks to honor lived experience while fostering dialogue about the legacies we carry forward.
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.
As part of the heady New York art world of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Schorr’s early work mined the vernacular of postmodernism to create photographs that toe the line between documentary and fiction. Often using her subjects allegorically, Schorr’s work navigates the auspices of identity politics to ask beguiling questions about the nomenclature of selfhood. Her range of imagery: from atmospheric portraiture to hard glamour has been used in advertising campaigns for Givenchy, Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent Paris, Comme Des Garcons, Hermes, and Bottega Veneta, to name a few. Ms. Schorr has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and is represented by 303 Gallery in New York and Modern Art in London. Ms. Schorr’s work is also represented in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Jewish Museum, and the The Walker Art Center. As a consistent writer and art critic, her essays have also appeared in various museum catalogs and magazines. In the last few years Ms Schorr undertook to adapt Chantal Akerman’s seminal and personal film Je Tu Il Elle into a full length dance piece made specifically to be captured by video and published as a movement script. Ms. Schorr was appointed to the Yale faculty in 2003 and is currently senior critic in photography.
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.