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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

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Ian Lewandowski

Ian Lewandowski

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Jon Henry

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Keisha Scarville

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Upcoming Events

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Community Day x Education Open House
Celebrate Community + Creativity at ICP’s Community Day x Education Open HouseICP’s Community Day x Education Open House welcomes visitors to our museum and school for an interactive day exploring ICP’s Open Education program, offering hands-on demos, portfolio reviews, opportunities to connect with faculty, and information tables to learn more about courses and workshops at ICP.The day also includes free admission to see our new exhibitions, Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies, and Sergio Larrain: Wanderings, a chance to connect with local community partners, and the book launch of ICP faculty Sarah Stacke’s collaborative publication, In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous America.Whether you’re just beginning your journey in photography or looking to deepen your practice, this is the perfect opportunity to explore your educational pathway at ICP, discover new possibilities, and connect with a community that values both skill-building and meaningful dialogue.Come celebrate with us, expand your skills, and find inspiration alongside our community of lifelong learners and photographers! Schedule of Events 12 PM – 5 PM, ICP SchoolICP Education Open HousePortfolio Reviews with ICP faculty and peersHands-on Demos a glimpse from our ICP classes that will spark your creativityInformation Tables highlighting our exciting Fall course offeringsOpportunities to meet and connect with our esteemed Open Education facultyAdvance registration is encouraged for all workshops. Find registration information here. 12 PM – 3 PM, Galleries, Floor 2Community Information TablesABC No Rio Photography CollectiveABC No Rio Zine Library 1 PM, Galleries, Floor 3Book Launch & Signing—In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous AmericaA new publication from Brian Adams and Sarah Stacke featuring a collection of photography highlighting work exclusively by Indigenous Americans, shedding new light on the understanding of Indigenous America. 1 PM, GalleriesFall 2025 Exhibitions Tour Join us for a guided walking tour of the exhibitions Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies, and Sergio Larrain Wanderings, led by a museum educator. Lower East Side Arts & Culture Open House ICP's Community Day x Education Open House is part of FABnyc's Lower East Side Arts & Culture Open House. The LES Arts & Culture Open House, now in its third year, welcoms folks into cultural spaces without a ticket to a show or the cost of admission. Visit ICP and then explore over 13 organizations opening their doors around the Lower East Side ending at East 4th Street where you can meet folks from 16 different organizations tabling on the block! All organizations will have staff available to greet you & answer questions about their programs! About In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous AmericaThe history of photography–and the Americas–is incomplete without the critical work and perspectives of Indigenous American photographers. Since the 1800s, cameras have been in the hands of Indigenous people, and they have incorporated photography into their lives as creators, patrons, and collectors.Five years ago, photographers Brian Adams and Sarah Stacke set off on a mission to assemble a groundbreaking, digital library of Indigenous photographers from the 19th century to the present. With In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous America, Adams and Stacke expand on that work, creating a one-of-a-kind collection of photographs that offers a first-hand look at the people, cultures, and evolving traditions of Indigenous America while providing a counterhistory to settler-colonial narratives.From Jennie Fields Ross Cobb, the earliest known Indigenous American woman photographer, to Arhuaco documentarian Amado Villafaña Chaparro, through Kapuleiikealoonalani Flores, a Native Hawaiian who was born in 2000, the photographers span many generations as well as multiple Indigenous societies and nations. Each entry includes a biographical sketch of the artist, along with their inspirations and contributions to the photographic medium. About Community PartnersABC No Rio is a volunteer-led nonprofit community center for arts and activism. Since 1980, we have provided a home for the culture of opposition and DIY culture – facilitating cross-pollination between artists and activists committed to current social movements. Image by Scott Rudd.
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Photo credit; Gabrielle Ravet 
Fall 2025 Exhibitions Tour
This event is free with museum admission.Join us for a guided walking tour of the exhibitions Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies, and Sergio Larrain: Wanderings, led by a museum educator. About the ExhibitionsGraciela Iturbide: Serious PlayThe first ever retrospective of Iturbide’s work in New York City. This landmark exhibition, organized in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE and curated by Carlos Gollonet, Chief Curator of Photography at Fundación MAPFRE, features nearly 200 photographs spanning five decades of her groundbreaking career.Iturbide learned photography under renowned Mexican modernist Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Throughout her career, Iturbide traveled extensively throughout Mexico–and beyond–turning her attention to communal life, indigenous communities, and the interactions between nature and culture.Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasiesThe exhibition grapples with the concept of pregnancy through constructed self-portraits, landscapes and still-lifes—blurring the line between documentary and performance. Green probes the conventional expectations and representational tropes of motherhood, while also creating an expanded space for considering the experience of pregnancy in America.Curated by Guest Curator Elisabeth Sherman, Instead, I spin fantasies brings together dozens of new works, including photographs printed using the historical technologies of albumen and lumen printing processes, along with a site-specific vinyl installation that utilizes the architecture of ICP’s third floor galleries.Sergio Larrain: WanderingsAn exhibition consisting of prints drawn entirely from the Magnum Photos archive. Curated by Agnès Sire, former Director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, the exhibition primarily highlights the work Larrain made during the first twenty years of his career, in cities such as Valparaíso, Santiago, Paris and London.Wanderings provides a new perspective on Larrain’s inventive and humanist photography that for decades has remained little seen and seldom exhibited, looking at both the material and spiritual drama of rural and urban life while also charting the subtle evolution of Larrain’s style. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Image © Gabrielle Ravet
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Red Crown Crane Feeding, Tsurui, Hokkaido, Japan
Michael Kenna: “Japan / A Love Story” – Closing Day
As Japan / A Love Story comes to a close, we invite you to experience this deeply contemplative exhibition that reflects Michael Kenna’s decades-long photographic dialogue with the Japanese landscape.Bringing together atmospheric long exposures and subtle compositions, the works on view offer more than visual documentation—they are meditations on stillness, tradition, and the emotional terrain of place. Each image carries a quiet power, drawing viewers into states of awareness and care.Presented in partnership with Nikkei and the Financial Times, the exhibition remains on view at ICP’s Ground Floor during museum and café hours. Red Crown Crane Feeding, Tsurui, Hokkaido, Japan, 2005. © Michael Kenna/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
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Photo credit; Gabrielle Ravet 
Fall 2025 Exhibitions Tour
This event is free with museum admission.Join us for a guided walking tour of the exhibitions Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies, and Sergio Larrain: Wanderings, led by a museum educator. About the ExhibitionsGraciela Iturbide: Serious PlayThe first ever retrospective of Iturbide’s work in New York City. This landmark exhibition, organized in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE and curated by Carlos Gollonet, Chief Curator of Photography at Fundación MAPFRE, features nearly 200 photographs spanning five decades of her groundbreaking career.Iturbide learned photography under renowned Mexican modernist Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Throughout her career, Iturbide traveled extensively throughout Mexico–and beyond–turning her attention to communal life, indigenous communities, and the interactions between nature and culture.Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasiesThe exhibition grapples with the concept of pregnancy through constructed self-portraits, landscapes and still-lifes—blurring the line between documentary and performance. Green probes the conventional expectations and representational tropes of motherhood, while also creating an expanded space for considering the experience of pregnancy in America.Curated by Guest Curator Elisabeth Sherman, Instead, I spin fantasies brings together dozens of new works, including photographs printed using the historical technologies of albumen and lumen printing processes, along with a site-specific vinyl installation that utilizes the architecture of ICP’s third floor galleries.Sergio Larrain: WanderingsAn exhibition consisting of prints drawn entirely from the Magnum Photos archive. Curated by Agnès Sire, former Director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, the exhibition primarily highlights the work Larrain made during the first twenty years of his career, in cities such as Valparaíso, Santiago, Paris and London.Wanderings provides a new perspective on Larrain’s inventive and humanist photography that for decades has remained little seen and seldom exhibited, looking at both the material and spiritual drama of rural and urban life while also charting the subtle evolution of Larrain’s style. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Image © Gabrielle Ravet
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Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Small Death
ICP Photobook Club: Martha Naranjo Sandoval
Explore photobooks from the ICP Library and connect with fellow photobook enthusiasts at ICP's Photobook Club. Each month, browse hand-picked selections from special guests and ICP community members.This program takes place every month and is free to attend with RSVP.This month’s Photobook Club is hosted by Martha Naranjo Sandoval, a visual artist, photographer, cataloger, and the founder and director of the editorial project Matarile Ediciones. About Martha Naranjo SandovalMartha Naranjo Sandoval is a Brooklyn-based visual artist, photographer, publisher, and cataloger from Mexico City. Her work focuses on the family album as means of creating community around photography.In 2023 she presented the solo exhibition The Stench of Orange Blossoms at Miriam Gallery, and in 2024, Flowering Wound at Baxter Street Camera Club of New York as part of their Artist-In-Residency program. Her monograph Small Death, published by MACK this year, was shortlisted for the 2025 Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook First PhotoBook Award. She is the founder and director of the editorial project Matarile Ediciones, which publishes work by artists who are immigrants or part of a recent diaspora. She also works at Dashwood Books, manages the ICP library, and teaches zine and photobook classes in multiple institutions.About ICP LibraryICP’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. Image by Martha Naranjo Sandoval
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Photo credit; Gabrielle Ravet 
Fall 2025 Exhibitions Tour
This event is free with museum admission.Join us for a guided walking tour of the exhibitions Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies, and Sergio Larrain: Wanderings, led by a museum educator. About the ExhibitionsGraciela Iturbide: Serious PlayThe first ever retrospective of Iturbide’s work in New York City. This landmark exhibition, organized in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE and curated by Carlos Gollonet, Chief Curator of Photography at Fundación MAPFRE, features nearly 200 photographs spanning five decades of her groundbreaking career.Iturbide learned photography under renowned Mexican modernist Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Throughout her career, Iturbide traveled extensively throughout Mexico–and beyond–turning her attention to communal life, indigenous communities, and the interactions between nature and culture.Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasiesThe exhibition grapples with the concept of pregnancy through constructed self-portraits, landscapes and still-lifes—blurring the line between documentary and performance. Green probes the conventional expectations and representational tropes of motherhood, while also creating an expanded space for considering the experience of pregnancy in America.Curated by Guest Curator Elisabeth Sherman, Instead, I spin fantasies brings together dozens of new works, including photographs printed using the historical technologies of albumen and lumen printing processes, along with a site-specific vinyl installation that utilizes the architecture of ICP’s third floor galleries.Sergio Larrain: WanderingsAn exhibition consisting of prints drawn entirely from the Magnum Photos archive. Curated by Agnès Sire, former Director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, the exhibition primarily highlights the work Larrain made during the first twenty years of his career, in cities such as Valparaíso, Santiago, Paris and London.Wanderings provides a new perspective on Larrain’s inventive and humanist photography that for decades has remained little seen and seldom exhibited, looking at both the material and spiritual drama of rural and urban life while also charting the subtle evolution of Larrain’s style. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Image © Gabrielle Ravet
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Educator’s Open House
Join us at ICP for the first installment of Educator’s Open House, welcoming educators for an interactive day exploring ICP Museum’s educational opportunities, exhibition tours, hands-on workshops designed for class visits, and opportunities to connect with other educators.This is the perfect opportunity to explore ICP and discover new educational possibilities for your classroom.Come celebrate with us, expand your skills, and find inspiration alongside our community of lifelong learners and photographers!

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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.