Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program
This program provides professional training for advanced photographers in the field of photojournalism. The core of this program is the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Seminar, where students meet weekly with the program chairperson for critiques and discussions on issues pertaining to the practice. Through the seminar, students are assisted in establishing a strong point of view that will nurture, strengthen, and enrich their individual projects.
Required courses are taught by professionals and cover topics such as editorial process, long-term projects, and world events. The program requires students to participate in an internship with a photo agency, gallery, photographer, or magazine. They are also encouraged to take advantage of ICP's resources by attending our symposia, public programs, and the lecture series The Photographers.
Critical reviews of work at the end of each term help to monitor each student's progress. At year's end, final projects are exhibited in the Education Gallery. These activities enable students to address issues of content, editing, sequencing, production, presentation, and installation of photographic images.
Now accepting applications for rolling admissions for 2008-2009.
Faculty
A legacy of ICP's founding mission dedicated to collecting and preserving notable photographic images in the documentary tradition, the program attracts prestigious faculty and visiting artists such as Shelby Lee Adams, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Nelson Bakerman, Nina Berman, Stephen Ferry, Giorgia Fiorio, Frank Fournier, Ed Grazda, Stanley Greene, Lauren Greenfield, Lori Grinker, Pat Harbron, Ron Haviv, Todd Heisler, Jeff Jacobson, Ed Kashi, Antonin Kratochvil, Andre Lambertson, Vincent Laforet, Judith Levitt, Serge J-F Levy, Santiago Lyon, Nadja Masri, Sabiene Meyer, Greg Miller, Suzanne Opton, Barron Rachman, Eugene Richards, Joseph Rodriguez, Marcel Saba, Bob Sacha, Shaul Schwartz, Steve Simon, John Smock, Maggie Steber, Robert Stevens, Scott Thode, Jonathan Torgovnik, Julie Winokur, and Brian Young, as well as others from around the world.
Alison Morley has been the Program Chair of the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program since 2000, teaching and overseeing an adjunct faculty of more than 60 working photographers and professionals.
As a photo editor, she has been the photography director of The New York Times' Sophisticated Traveler, Audubon, Life, Civilization, Esquire, Mirabella, Elle, and The Los Angeles Times Magazine. Her awards for photo editing include American Photography, the Society of Publication Design, and Communication Arts.
She has edited several major monographs, including The Ninth Floor by alum, Jessica Dimmock, who began her project at ICP. She has curated touring exhibitions for Blood and Honey: A Yugoslavian War Journal and The Road to Kabul, both by Ron Haviv; I Am Rich Potosi: The Mountain That Eats Men by Stephen Ferry; and Soviets: Pictures From the End of The U.S.S.R. by Shepard Sherbell. Most recently, she curated a traveling exhibition of photographs by five members of the photo agency, VII on the "Forgotten War" of the Democratic Republic of The Congo, sponsored by Médecins Sans Frontières. The exhibition traveled to over 40 countries. She also curated a solo exhibition for Haviv on Darfur at the Untied Nations, sponsored by UNICEF.
Alison is on the nominating committee for Visa Pour L'image in France and World Press Photos in The Netherlands. In Los Angeles, she ran her own studio creating editorial portraiture for magazines such as Shape, Redbook, Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, Film Comment, and Los Angeles Magazine. Her photographs have been published in several books including Back-story: Screenwriters of The Golden Age, edited by Patrick McGilligan.
She has written for magazines and books, and has lectured and taught workshops in the United States as well as in Bosnia, China, France, Hungary, Peru and Uganda.
If you have any questions about the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program, please contact amorley@icp.org.
