ICP's Community Partnerships focus on collaboration with schools, community centers, and other cultural institutions. Our goal is to teach photography in the community at large as a way to foster self-esteem and empowerment. Photographic education enhances each program's objectives, and students and staff alike gain artistic and leadership skills. All partnerships culminate in final presentations that celebrate the students' achievements.

In addition to the sponsors of each program listed below, ICP Community Programs would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Marina and Andrew Lewin, Joseph Alexander, Cowles Charitable Trust, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and all of our individual supporters.

For more information, contact Community Programs at (212) 857-0061 or community_programs@icp.org.

The Community Record School Partnerships

This program incorporates photography into public school classrooms and curricula through active engagement with school faculty. With careful attention to New York State Learning Standards, partnerships include intensive weekly instruction, thematic projects, guest artists, photographic field trips, gallery tours, darkroom activities, slide presentations, and a final exhibition or publication of the students' work. Currently, the program operates at the High School of Fashion Industries in Chelsea. A recent partner was P.S. 111 Adolph S. Ochs Middle School.

This program is made possible by support from the New York City Department of Education and Surdna Foundation.

ICP at The Point

ICP at The Point is a partnership with The Point Community Development Corporation. With a thriving photography educational center in the South Bronx, featuring a classroom, studio and darkroom facilities, a business, and a gallery, this partnership is able to teach photography in the community as a way to foster self-esteem, communication skills, professional experience, and community revitalization.

This program is made possible by generous support from Art + Commerce, Bloomberg, Ethel & Irvin Edelman Foundation, Mary A. Goodman, William T. Grant Foundation, George K. & Joyce L. Moss, Peninsula Hotels, The Pinkerton Foundation, The President's Council on the Arts and the Humanities, The Harold Roth Fund for Young Photographers, and Time Warner.

Re-Visions of El Barrio

In this annual collaboration between ICP and partnering organizations from the East Harlem community, local youth learn to use the arts to re-envision their identities and communities. Our most recent partnerships have been with Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc., and Mount Sinai Adolescent Health & Treatment Center.

This program is made possible by support from Bloomberg, The May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, and Surdna Foundation.

Portable Digital Darkroom

ICP's Portable Digital Darkroom provides youth with hands-on photography and writing instruction integrated with self-esteem and life skill-building activities. This program offers photography and digital media education to teens who have had little or no access to the photographic medium. The Community Programs staff and teaching artists design a curriculum tailored to meet the needs and interests of each partner group by integrating photography instruction with specific themes including heath and wellness, literacy, and positive ways of self-expression.

The program culminates in a celebration of the students' work that combines photographs and writing. ICP's most recent partnerships have included: Girls Education and Mentoring Services (GEMS), Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, the Lower Eastside Girls Club, and Friends of Island Academy.

This program is made possible by generous support from The MetLife Foundation and Surdna Foundation.

Jocelyne Benzekin (JB) Fellowships

Jocelyne Benzekin Fellowships provide five alumni of Community Programs the opportunity to take one year of ICP's Continuing Education classes alongside professional mentorships with photographers, editors, and agents. The fellowships are offered in memory and honor of Jocelyne Benzakin and the values she brought to her life's work in the field of documentary photography and photojournalism.

We thank the JB Fellowship Committee and all who have donated to the JB Memorial Fellowship Fund for supporting this program.