Join ICP online for a conversation between historian Joanna Bourke, curator Marta Gili, and ICP Associate Director of Exhibitions Sara Ickow on the occasion of our latest exhibition, Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure. Bourke, Gili and Ickow will discuss the historical context of assault in the 21st century, and how Abril’s work fits into contemporary discourse of how we process trauma.Tickets to attend the online program are free. About the ExhibitionIn On Rape and Institutional Failure, an exhibition centered on the second chapter of her ongoing project A History of Misogyny, Laia Abril examines different forms of violence against women throughout history.Weaving together images, compiled testimonies, archival materials, select objects, and installations with sound and video, the exhibition investigates how gender-based stereotypes, coupled with worldwide prejudices and misconceptions, have contributed to a systemic rape culture that persists today.By focusing on institutions, Abril aims to avoid narratives of victim-blaming, instead addressing the on-going problem of social accountability that has allowed offenders and enablers alike to avoid justice. On Rape and Institutional Failure was first exhibited in 2020 in the wake of the initial, galvanizing allegations against Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men. While #MeToo has led to few sustained consequences and little systemic change, Abril offers a meaningful opportunity to address the long history of silencing victims and the transgenerational trauma that has developed as a result.Please Note: If you are feeling distressed as you move through Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure, please use the link here for resources and hotlines. https://uniqode.io/J4pZk3 About the Speakers Sara Ickow is the Associate Director of Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography and Managing Director of Women Photograph. Previously, she worked as a curatorial assistant and collections manager with the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. She holds an MA in art history from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Marta Gili is a curator and independent art critic. In France, she served as Director of the Jeu de Paume in Paris (2006–2018) and Director of the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles (2019–2023). Previously, in Spain, she headed the Department of Photography and Visual Arts at the Fundació ”la Caixa” in Barcelona (1991–2006).She is currently a member of the International Advisory Board of A*MIDEX at Aix-Marseille Université (France) and a member of the Board of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid. She also works as a writer, lecturer, curator and educator for numerous universities and museums. Joanna Bourke is a prize-winning author and cultural historian. She is Professor Emerita of History at Birkbeck, University of London, a Fellow of the British Academy, and OBE. She is also the Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. She is the author of eighteen books, as well as over 120 articles in academic journals. In 2022, Reaktion Books published Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence and, in 2026, Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker. She is currently writing a book on female cultures of drinking wine. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, Korean and Greek. See https://www.joannabourke.com. Header Image: Laia Abril, Ala Kachuu (Bride Kidnapping), Kyrgyzstan, 2019 © Laia Abril, Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris

Connect with fellow photobook enthusiasts, explore ICP’s library, and browse photobooks by Japanese women photographers exhibited in I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, then edit the Wikipedia pages of the photographers featured in the exhibition, alongside an Wikipedia expert in this special edition of Photobook Club, presented in collaboration with Art+Feminism. Browse-only participants are welcome! The Photobook Club takes place in the ICP library on the last Saturday of each month. This event is free to attend with RSVP. About Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-ThonArt+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon is a public, volunteer-powered session to update Wikipedia entries on gender, feminism, and the arts. This session will focus on Japanese Women Photographers, browse our Wikipedia-edit wish list here. The Wikipedia editing campaign will continue online through Saturday, December 12.All levels of knowledge and experience are welcome. No Wikipedia editing or art history experience is necessary. ICP and an experienced Wikipedia editor will be on-site to offer tutorials, guidance, and reference materials.Before you come: Participants need a Wikipedia account to edit entries. If you don't have one, please create an account before the event at auth.wikimedia.org/enwiki/wiki/Special:CreateAccount. Creating more than five accounts from the same internet connection may trigger editing restrictions.What to bring: your laptop, power cord, and ideas for entries, or browse our Wikipedia-edit wish list. About ICP Library ICP’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.

Join us at ICP this fall for the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer lecture series featuring environmentalist photographer and filmmaker Pierpaolo Mittica. Encompassing the scope of his career including his coverage of Chernobyl which will be highlighted in a new documentary, Mittica will be joined by writer Adam Higginbotham in a conversation moderated by ICP's Director of Collections, Erin Barnett. This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate programs are automatically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.Past speakers of the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Lecture series include: JEB, Philip Cheung, Donna Ferrato, Naima Green, David Alekhuogie, Keisha Scarville, Roe Ethridge, and Erin Schaff.Image: Pierpaolo Mittica About the Series:The 2026-2027 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family.ICP is thrilled to honor Naomi Rosenblum’s contribution to the field and to further her life’s work through this lecture series. Naomi Rosenblum was one of the leading photography historians of her generation and the author of A World History of Photography and A History of Women Photographers. The 2025-2026 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family. About the Speakers:Pierpaolo Mittica is an Italian humanist and environmental photographer/filmmaker based in Italy. He received the Masters Program at CRAF diploma in conservation, technique and history of photography in 1990, studying with, among others, Charles – Henri Favrod, Naomi Rosenblum and Walter Rosenblum, who is his spiritual father in photography. His photographs have been exhibited all over Europe, United States and China, and published in Italian and international newspapers and magazines among them: l'Espresso, Internazionale, Alias del Manifesto, Vogue Italia, Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, Panorama, Il Sole 24 ore, Oggi, Le Scienze, Vanity Fair, Photomagazine, Daylight Magazine, Days Japan International, Asahi Shinbum, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Spiegel, Die Zeit, Wired USA, Asian Geo, China Newsweek, National Geographic USA.Adam Higginbotham is a British writer born in Somerset in 1968. His first book, Midnight in Chernobyl, was published in 2019. The winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and the Colby Award for Military and Intelligence History, Midnight in Chernobyl was named one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2019, and became an international bestseller translated into 25 languages.His second book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, was published in 2024. A New York Times bestseller, Challenger won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the 2024 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction. Higginbotham’s work has appeared in newspapers and magazines including The New Yorker, Wired, GQ, Smithsonian and The New York Times Magazine. The former US correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and editor-in-chief of The Face, he lives with his family in New York City.Header image by Pierpaolo Mittica

Join us at ICP to celebrate the release of Gerald Cyrus’ monograph, Uptown Odyssey, with a conversation featuring Cyrus and artist Gioncarlo Valentine.This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5 and do not include access to ICP’s galleries. About the BookUptown Odyssey gathers Gerald Cyrus's black-and-white photographs of Harlem made across the 1990s——a decade-long portrait of a neighborhood at the height of its cultural life. Cyrus arrived in New York in 1990 to attend graduate school at the School of Visual Arts and spent the years that followed roaming the streets with his camera, attuned to the rhythms of everyday life. The work moves in a lyrical arc: from the street, with its children, families, characters and storefronts, down into the subway and that unique state of in-between, and back up again into the electric atmosphere of the nightclub, where music——the life force Harlem was so celebrated for——fills the room.These are not documents of spectacle. Cyrus turned his lens on the people who gave Harlem its soul, finding in ordinary moments an extraordinary depth of feeling. His photographs carry the influence of Roy DeCarava and the tradition of the Kamoinge Workshop, the legendary Black photography collective of which he was a member——images that hold their subjects with care and without distance, in an era when people moved through public space with less wariness of a camera turned their way.Central to the book is Gioncarlo Valentine's account of the year he spent with Cyrus in his Philadelphia studio, poring over silver gelatin prints and printing alongside him in his darkroom——a whole row house given over to decades of work. Many of the subway photographs collected here were placed in a box more than thirty years ago after being dismissed as too familiar. They are published for the first time in this book.Uptown Odyssey is a long-overdue reckoning with an indisputable body of work——and an act of witness to the dazzling world Gerald Cyrus spent a decade recording. About the Artists Gerald Cyrus was born in 1957 in Los Angeles, CA and began photographing there in 1984. His initial subjects included jazz musicians and urban street scenes, and he exhibited at several L.A.-area galleries. In 1990 he moved to New York City to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts (SVA), which he obtained in 1992. While at SVA, Cyrus interned at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and began work on "Kinship", a project focusing on African-American family life. In 1994, he started frequenting the nightclubs and lounges in Harlem and photographed the vibrant music scene in that historic neighborhood for over six years. The resulting body of work, entitled “Stormy Monday”, was published as a book in 2008. Concurrently in the 90's, Cyrus also photographed extensively on the streets of Harlem, as well as the subway. A new publication, “Uptown Odyssey” (TBW Books, 2026) incorporates these bodies of work in conjunction with his Harlem jazz images.Gioncarlo Valentine (b. 1990) is an award-winning American photographer and writer from Baltimore City. His photographs have been collected by the Whitney Museum of American Art and he has been commissioned by Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, The New Yorker, and Scientific American among many others. Header Image by Gerald Cyrus

Discover everything you need to know about our Onsite One-Year Certificate Program! Join our Admissions Team virtually to explore key admission dates, the academic timeline, program structure, tuition and scholarship opportunities, and learn what makes a successful application.Applications for Fall 2027 are now open!Apply by March 1, 2027 for priority consideration and merit-based scholarship opportunities.ICP’s On-Site One-Year Certificate Programs will begin in mid-August 2027 at our New York City campus.About the Event Format This is an online event held via Zoom. Please register in advance for this free event.If you have questions about the event, please contact [email protected] by Matthew Septimus

Join ICP CEO Bob Jeffrey and Creative Director David Campany for a special donor trip to Paris, timed to coincide with Paris Photo at the historic Grand Palais. Curated exclusively for ICP Trustees, Committee Members, and Visionary Circle members and above, this four-day trip offers behind-the-scenes access to the international photography world, including curator-led tours of Paris Photo, artist studio visits, private collection and museum tours, private breakfast with ICP alumni, and a reception with ICP's CEO. A detailed itinerary will be shared with registered participants.Participation Cost (Reserved Visionary Circle and above)*Individual: $800Dual Participants: $1,200*Airfare, accommodations, and additional meals are not included Image: Salon d'honneur at the Paris Photo (2016) by Frédéric Bisson is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Women drove the Algerian Revolution (1954–62) as combatants, nurses, and photographers on the frontlines, yet their role remains largely overlooked. Join us at ICP for a conversation led by Maura McCreight, PhD, that examines the women who shaped the history of the Algerian War, with a special focus on the late Elaine Mokhtefi, an American-born activist who became a celebrated heroine of the revolution. McCreight will be joined by Cynthia Young, Director of the Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive at ICP, and filmmaker Mila Turajlić to discuss the broader history of war photojournalism, as well as Turajlić’s film on Mokhtefi’s contributions to the resistance.This panel takes place alongside an exhibition at the Palais de la Culture in Algiers, opening December 2026. Funded by the International Association of Friends of the Algerian Revolution (AIARA), it features work by American photographer Kathryn Updegraff and is curated by McCreight.This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5 and do not include access to ICP’s galleries. Image of Kathryn and Elaine:Unknown Photographer, Kathryn and Elaine in Algiers, 1962. The Degraff/Updegraff Archive. Image of Kathryn, Akila, and Hadja:Kathryn Updegraff, Akila, Kathryn, and Hadja in the maquis, August, 1957. The Degraff/Updegraff Archive. About the Speakers Maura McCreight completed her dissertation A Photographic Gendered History of the Algerian War of Independence in 2026 at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the Partnerships & Programs Manager in Open Education at the International Center of Photography (ICP). Before joining ICP, she was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Art History at several CUNY campuses and a fellow in Interpretation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Cynthia Young is the Director of the Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive at the International Center of Photography. She has curated numerous exhibitions about mid-twentieth century photojournalism, particularly related to Robert Capa, Chim and Gerda Taro.Mila Turajlić is a Serbian filmmaker. She directed and produced award-winning films The Other Side of Everything and Cinema Komunisto. Turajlić was born in Belgrade, Serbia.. Turajlić studied film production at Belgrade University's Faculty of Dramatic Arts and political science at the London School of Economics. She then specialized in documentary film-making at the La Femis school in Paris and also obtained a PhD from the University of Westminster. She has worked as a researcher and production assistant for the BBC, Discovery Channel and Arte France. Additionally her experience includes working on the features The Brothers Bloom and Fade to Black as an assistant director, as well as on Apocalypto as a coordinator. She is currently the Julien and Virginia Cornell Distinguished Visiting Professor at Swarthmore University. Header Image of Kathryn and Elaine:Unknown Photographer, Kathryn and Elaine in Algiers, 1962. The Degraff/Updegraff Archive.