Connect with ICP's community during our monthly Cameras and Coffee social meet-up for photographers, collectors, and camera enthusiasts! During the event, grab freshly brewed coffee by Deadbeat Club and pastries, available for purchase in the ICP café.This session of Cameras and Coffee features an information table by the local Lower East Side camera store, K&M, who will be featuring a printing demo presented by Hahnemühle, a legacy fine-art paper company. On the day of the event, stop by the K&M store at 54 Orchard Street from 10:15 to 11:00 AM to pick up a Hahnemühle paper samples pack, then meet us at ICP from 11 AM to 1 PM!Upload your picture here to receive a complimentary print during the session at ICP. Prints must be uploaded by Saturday, October 10, 9 AM.Cameras and Coffee is held on the second Saturday of each month and free to attend with RSVP. Special thanks to K&M for the generous public programs support.For over 50 years, K&M Camera has proudly served New York City's photography community as a trusted, family-owned camera store. Located in the Lower East Side, we offer an extensive selection of photo, video, audio, and production equipment, along with the city's largest collection of vintage cameras. We're committed to making the Lower East Side a vibrant hub for photography, creativity, and visual storytelling. Image by Asher Salle

Don’t miss the final opportunity for the info session for ICP’s One-Year Certificate Program in Documentary Practice: Visual Storytelling Online, led by Program Chair Karen Marshall.Karen will provide an overview of the program’s curriculum, structure, admissions process, and how to apply.You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions and hear directly from both the Program Chair and members of the Admissions Team.For the online One-Year Certificate program, the application for the program and Scholarships is currently open for the 2027 academic year. The priority deadline for the admission and merit-based scholarship consideration is October 18, 2026. ICP’s Online One-Year Certificate Programs begin in mid-January 2027.About the Event Format This is a free online event held via Zoom. Please register in advance. Your registration confirmation email will include the Zoom meeting linkIf you have questions about the event, please contact [email protected]. Image © Sayan Hazra (DOC Online '23)

Don’t miss the final opportunity to hear directly from ICP’s Creative Director, David Campany and Program Leads Alan Huck and Daria Tuminas in this online info session about ICP’s online One-Year Certificate Programs in Writing and the Photographic Image and Curatorial Practices in Photography.In this session, you will receive an overview of the program’s curriculum, structure, admissions process, and how to apply. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions and hear directly from both Program Leads and David Campany.For the online One-Year Certificate program, the application for the program and Scholarships is currently open for the 2027 academic year. The priority deadline for the admission and merit-based scholarship consideration is October 18, 2026. ICP’s Online One-Year Certificate Programs begin in mid-January 2027.About the Event Format This is a free online event held via Zoom. Please register in advance. Your registration confirmation email will include the Zoom meeting link.If you have questions about the event, please contact [email protected] by Jeenah Moon

Join us to learn more about ICP's Online One-Year Certificate Program and gain insight into what we look for in a successful application. The programs include:Curatorial Practice in PhotographyWriting and the Photographic ImageDocumentary Practice: Visual StorytellingFor the online One-Year Certificate program, the application for the program and Scholarships is currently open for the 2027 academic year. The priority deadline for the admission and merit-based scholarship consideration is October 18, 2026. ICP’s Online One-Year Certificate Programs begin in mid-January 2027.About the Event Format This is a free online event held via Zoom. Please register in advance. Your registration confirmation email will include the Zoom meeting link.If you have questions about the event, please contact [email protected]. Image © Gabrielle Ravet for ICP

This program is being presented alongside Fujikina Festival. Register after reserving your Fujikina weekend pass. Limited walk-ins will be allowed as space permits. Join ICP Associate Director of Exhibitions, Sara Ickow, on a walking tour of the exhibition, Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure, which examines different forms of violence against women throughout history.Content warning: This program includes discussion of sexual violence, which may be distressing or triggering for some attendees. Program Format/Accessibility Information:This is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. About the ExhibitionOn 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. About Laia AbrilLaia Abril (b. 1986) is a research-based artist working across photography, text, video, and sound, focusing on biopolitics and gender issues. Her work is rooted in a politically engaged, process-driven methodology that employs strategies of forensic aesthetics and counter-narratives, interrogating dominant histories and the politics of representation.Her work has been exhibited in over 25 countries and is held in collections such as Centre Pompidou, Photo Elysée, Fotomuseum Winterthur, MACBA, Reina Sofía, MNAC, and the V&A Museum. She has authored acclaimed books, including The Epilogue, Lobismuller, and the A History of Misogyny series: On Abortion, On Rape, and On Mass Hysteria.She has received the Foam Paul Huf Award (Amsterdam), RPS Hood Medal (London), Aperture Best Book Award (NY/Paris), and Spain’s National Photography Award. Based in Switzerland, she is CONFIDENTIAL Last Updated: June 29, 2026 About CuratorSara Ickow is the Associate Director of Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, where she has been a curator on exhibitions including Gillian Laub: Family Matters, ICP at 50: From the Collection 1845–2019, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, and Photobooks USA 2000–25. She is also the Managing Director for Women Photograph and co-editor of the book Women Photograph: What We See. Previously, she worked as Curatorial Assistant and Collections Manager at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Sara holds an MA in Art History from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Header Image: Laia Abril, Ala Kachuu (Bride Kidnapping), Kyrgyzstan, 2019 © Laia Abril, Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris; Laia Abril, Church Rape, Argentina, 2019 © Laia Abril, Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris; Laia Abril, Military rape, US, 2019 © Laia Abril, Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris

Come Find Your CommunityFUJIKINA NYC 2026 is a three-day photography festival that celebrates the rich history and future of photography, marking the 200th anniversary of the art form. Anchored at ICP, and with eight walkable venues across the Lower East Side, FUJIKINA invites attendees to choose their own adventure, with exhibitions, workshops, keynotes, gallery tours, photowalks, and more—all within a five- to eight-minute walk of one another. Fujikina Tickets: For tickets and to learn more about all programs taking place throughout the festival, click here.ICP members receive free access to Fujikina. Please email [email protected] to receive your discount code. Fujikina at ICP Friday, October 16, 2026 +11:00 AMICP GalleryCurator Tour—“Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure” with Sara IckowJoin ICP Associate Director of Exhibitions, Sara Ickow, on a walking tour of the exhibition, Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure , examines different forms of violence against women throughout history.Content warning: This program includes discussion of sexual violence, which may be distressing or triggering for some attendees.2:15 PM – 4:00 PMICP LibraryArtist Talk—Yuki Tawada, Yurie Nagashima, and Tomoko SawadaJoin us at ICP for a special artist conversation and book signing with I'm So Happy You Are Here photographers, Yuki Tawada, Yurie Nagashima, and Tomoko Sawada.4:00 PMICP Library Making of I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Woman Photographers from the 1950s to Now Get a behind the scenes look at the making of the exhibition and book, I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Woman Photographers from the 1950s to Now. Curators Lesley Martin and Pauline Vermare will be joined by book contributor Carrie Cushman to discuss how the projects developed. Saturday, October 17, 2026 +10:45 AM – 11:30 AMICP Library Snap the Sweep: Youth-Led Photography & Community ActionMeet the high school students behind Snap the Sweep: NYC at Work, a youth-led initiative using photography to celebrate NYC sanitation workers and bring attention to the people who keep the city running. Following a short presentation, participants will head into the Lower East Side for a photo walk and neighborhood clean-up, combining photography with community action. 2:00 – 4:00 PMICP Galleries, meet at the schoolFamily Art Hour—”This Book is a Camera" with Kelli Anderson2:30 – 3:30 PMSeward Park Educational CampusDavid Campany x Alec Soth Panel TalkJoin David Campany and Alec Soth for a conversation about Soth’s new exhibition, Alec Soth: Three Teens, which documents the lives of three teenagers in an intimate, coming-of-age story of youth and identity.3:00 – 7:00 PMICP Lighting StudioTintype Portrait Pop Up with Larson HarleyStep back in time with a historic tintype portrait session, led by ICP staff and faculty member Larson Harley. RSVP hereSunday, October 18, 2026 +10:30 AM – 12:00 PMICP Lighting StudioGroup Critique with Michael AckermanFor a taste of ICP’s master class, the Crit Lab is designed to take your photography to the next level. Come work with Michael Ackerman - an internationally acclaimed photographer known for his raw, atmospheric, and emotionally charged imagery - to refine your vision, strengthen your portfolio, and develop your unique voice as an imagemaker. Bring physical prints, or a hard drive and a device to view images on. CreditsFUJIKINA New York 2026, presented by FUJIFILM

Join us at ICP for a conversation with the artist Yuki Tawada, Yurie Nagashima, and Tomoko Sawada featured in our current exhibition I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now. The disccusion will encompass Tawada’s latest publication, “FIRE WATER”, as well their intergenerational practices. The discussion will be followed by a signing in the ICP Shop. This program is being presented alongside Fujikina Festival. Register after reserving your Fujikina weekend pass.Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $10 and include access to ICP’s galleries. Arrive early to see our current exhibitions I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now and Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure, on view through January 4. About the BookYuki Tawada is an artist who radically expands the possibilities of photographic expression by challenging the photograph as a physical object through processes such as scraping and burning. This book is the first mid-career retrospective of Tawada’s work, bringing together, series by series, nearly twenty years of her practice, from her earliest works to her most recent projects. In WHITE OUT, Tawada spends months rubbing and scraping the surfaces of large-scale photographic prints depicting crowds and cities with erasers and needles—not to erase the image, but to touch the unseen force within it. In I am in You, Tawada and her mother, who live apart, work with the same photograph of waves in their separate places, burning only the areas of water with a heated drawing tool. Through this process, personal memory opens outward into the time of the family and the memories of others. Through such physical interventions into the photograph, Tawada approaches the realms of individual and collective unconscious, memory, and emotion. In recent years, Tawada has extended this practice into ceramics through her collaboration with ceramic artist Fuku Fukumoto. In Lachrymatory, photographic ash—the remains of photographs burned by participants—is turned into glaze and fused into the surface of vessels. Through processes involving photographic transfer, bodily traces, clay, water, fire, and firing, Tawada approaches photography not simply as an image, but as something that can disappear, transform, and pass into other forms of matter. The collaborative ceramic works further explore photography as something that continues to transform within clay, water, fire, and gravity. The book includes Tawada’s own concept texts for each series, as well as essays by Pauline Vermare, Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum, and art historian and critic Toshiharui Ito. About the Speakers Yuki Tawada (b. 1978, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan) graduated from the Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Tohoku University, with a focus on biotechnology, and studied as an exchange student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She later graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, in Photography, and completed her PhD in Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts. She is currently a Professor at Kyoto University of the Arts. Her practice opens photography by hand as a kind of “field,” reweaving images through the exchange between body and information, and bringing transformation into being.Born in 1973 in Nakano, Tokyo, Yurie Nagashima gained attention with her nude family portraits at age 20, winning the PARCO Prize. She earned a BA in Visual Communication Design from Musashino Art University (1995) and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (1999). In 2000, she received the Kimura Ihei Photography Award. Her work—spanning self‑portraiture, family life, street and still-life photography—is known for its candid intimacy and feminist undertones, often probing identity, gender, and the everyday. She is a lecturer (Musashino + Tokyo Universities) and visiting professor at Kyoto Seika University; her work continues to influence both photographic and feminist discourse.Tomoko Sawada (澤田 知子, Sawada Tomoko, born 1977 in Kobe, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary feminist photographer and performance artist. She has been included in numerous group shows in Japan, Europe and the US. Her first solo exhibition was in 1997 at Japan's Gallery Chat. In 2004 she was awarded the prestigious Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award for Young Japanese Photographer as well as the International Center of Photography Infinity Award in the category of Young Photographer. Header image:Yuki Tawada, FIRE WATER