Join Darin Mickey, Creative Practices Chair, and Karen Marshall, Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Chair, to learn about onsite One-Year Certificate program including program structure, curriculum highlights, faculty, student life, the admissions process, our vibrant community, and more.You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions directly to the program Chairs and Admissions team.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 ICP Alum Cydnii Jones (Creative Practices '26)

Celebrate the opening of "What’s Ms. Pinney Doing Here? " with a conversation between Melissa Ann Pinney, and photographer Alice Proujansky, moderated by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions, focused on Pinney’s decade long project documenting Chicago Public School students. Join the artist in the Incubator Space after the program for a special opening reception."What’s Ms. Pinney Doing Here?" Is on view beginning October 22 in ICP’s free ground floor Incubator Space. The space is free and open to the public during café and museum hours. About the ExhibitionSince 2018, photographer Melissa Ann Pinney has documented Chicago Public School students as part of an artist residency. As the students began to invite her into their world, the project became a document of identity, community and urgent social issues. Pinney’s thoughtful portraits of young people navigating the transformations of adolescence contain all of the triumph, grief, humor, and tenderness of growing up. About the Artist Melissa Ann Pinney’s work first garnered attention in the Museum of Modern Art’s major 1991 exhibition, Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort. Her studies of the social lives and emerging identities of American adolescents have earned her many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Awards, and a National Endowment for the Arts Midwest Regional Fellowship. Pinney was selected for three documentary projects that were exhibited, published, and archived in Chicago: Changing Chicago (1987), City (2000), and most recently in the Chicago Public Schools. Pinney’s first monograph, Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls (2003) was followed by Girl Ascending (2010), TWO (2015), and In Their Own Light: Photographs from Chicago Public Schools was published in 2023.Alice Proujansky is a photographer looking at family labor: birth, work, motherhood and identity. Her photobook, Hard Times are Fighting Times (Gnomic Book, 2023), uses archival and documentary images to look at the legacy of radical activism in her family. It was shortlisted for a 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award and the Rencontres d'Arles Author Book Award, and was selected for exhibition through Baxter St's Mid-Career Artists Initiative. She is currently working on Birth Work, a photobook about culturally-responsive birth work, Transmission, an installation about diasporic Judaism and cultural inheritance and Containment, a photography and quilting project about psychological formation, motherhood and play. Alice has taught photography since 2002, most recently for Aperture, who also published her book Go Photo! An Activity Book for Kids. A member of Women Photograph, Alice grew up in Greenfield, MA. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and lives in Brooklyn with her family. 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. About the ICP Incubator SpaceICP’s Incubator Space is a new exhibition program designed to highlight the work of emerging photographers who are responding in real time to the world around us. ICP will present a rotating selection of projects by imagemakers experimenting with and pushing boundaries around the documentary tradition. ICP’s Incubator Space is curated by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions at ICP. Special ThanksThis exhibition is made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF). The opinions and views of the authors do not necessarily state or reflect those of the RBF. Exhibitions at ICP are supported, in part, by Michael Clinton, Caryl Englander, Renee Harbers Liddell, Almudena Legorreta, Jessica Nagle, Ken Nicholson, Jeffrey Rosen, the ICP Board of Trustees, the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Melissa Ann Pinney, Zydrea, Brooklyn, Akylah and Friends, Ogden-Jenner Middle School, 2019

The International Center of Photography’s school presents a new two-day online symposium organized and presented by the students in the 2026 Online One Year Certificate Programs in Writing and the Photographic Image and Curatorial Practices in Photography.This program takes place online. Register to receive the link to tune into the livestream directly. ICP will also be streaming the online program in the ICP Library for students, faculty, and museum visitors to watch live. Friday, October 23, 1–5 PM ETSide A—Seeing Between the Lines: Image Text as Process Organized by the One-Year Certificate Program Students in Writing and the Photographic Image, Seeing Between the Lines: Image Text as Process delves into the various stages of conception, development, and production through which hybrid works of photography and writing take shape. Comprising both solo presentations and conversations between artists, writers, photographers, and publishers, the program will offer a range of reflections on how the compositional process unfolds, looking at the particular challenges and complexities associated with working across these two disciplines.Tickets for Side A Saturday, October 24, 10:30 AM–5:30PM ETSide B—Who Gives Meaning to Photographs?Organized by the One-Year Certificate Program Students in Curatorial Practices in Photography, Who Gives Meaning to Photographs brings together five conversations exploring how meaning in photography is shaped, negotiated, and transformed. The second symposium’s day considers who gets to be seen and represented, how memories are constructed and carried forward, how photographers shape and are shaped by place, who controls and reinterprets photographic archives, and what forms of care and support are possible beyond visibility. The program offers to look beyond the photograph itself: to the people, institutions, places, and power structures that influence how images are produced and understood.Tickets for Side B Friday Schedule +1:00 PM Track 01: Writing a PhotobookWith Carlos Loret de Mola, Fernando Gallegos, and Freddy Martinez. Introduction by Amy TouchetteFernando Gallegos is an editor and designer of photobooks with a background in literature and cinema, based in Monterrey, Mexico, and has worked on notable books by Alejandro Cartagena and several other Latin American photo artists and visual authors. Carlos Loret de Mola is a photographer and co-publisher of Los Sumergidos, an international creative collective based in New York and Mexico that produces and distributes photography-based art publications and related projects, of which Gallegos is also a founding member. Regular collaborators in book production, Gallegos and Loret de Mola will discuss and present the literary and cinematic influences that shape how Gallegos creates photobooks with artists/authors. They will be joined by writer Freddy Martinez, also an original member/author of Los Sumergidos, an editor at Aperture, and a founder of the New York-based arts collective GAUCHE, for what promises to be an entertaining and enlightening conversation about the intersections of literary and visual language in book form.2:00 PM Track 02: A Basket of HammersWith Odette England Odette England is a photographer, writer, and educator. She is the author of six books, including 2021's Dairy Character, a loose chronicle of her experience growing up on a dairy farm in southern Australia (published by Saint Lucy Books); 2024's The Long Shadow, a photo-textual study of the life and work of the American photographer Marion Post Wolcott (published by Libraryman); and, most recently, her first photo-novella Isn't X Beautiful! (published by The Ice Plant). She will discuss these and other projects at the intersection of photography and literature, including her forthcoming second novella and an experimental re-telling of Susan Sontag's On Photography.  3:00 PM Track 03: Words, Pictures, and VideotapeWith Nina Strand, Lillian Davies and Catherine Taylor Nina Strand is an artist and founder of Objektiv Press. She will present her publications juxtaposing text and image, the press's essay series on photography, and Afterimage, an ekphrastic column on the press's web journal where different people are asked to describe the image that lingers in their mind. As the sea of images continues to swell, the series explores which visuals linger and take root in today's endless stream, much like a song that plays on repeat in your head. The talk will also include a recorded piece in which Strand and the writers Lillian Davies and Catherine Taylor read from their new book Paragraphs, which brings together image and text. 4:00 PM Track 04: AfterwordWith Alan Huck and David Campany ICP’s Creative Director David Campany and Program Lead Alan Huck with conclude the day’s sessions by reflecting on the considerations that drive the Writing and the Photographic Image Program. Get Friday Tickets Saturday Schedule+10:30 AMOpening Remarks with Ximena Natera, David Campany and Daria Tuminas11:00 AM Track 01: Beautiful Men—Photography, Desire, and the Reimagining of MasculintyWith Debmalya Ray Choudhuri and Dimitri Stefanov. Moderated and organized by Velina Stefanova and Gene TolanJoin photographers Debmalaya Ray Choudhuri and Dimitri Stefanov for an intimate conversation about masculinity, photography, and desire through the interconnected ideas of Inheritance, Intimacy, and Appearance. Beautiful Men asks how masculinity is learned and embodied, what intimacy can unsettle, and ultimately, who is permitted to appear differently. 12:00 – 12:15 PM Break12:15 PM Track 02: Who Carries Memory Forward?With Anurag Banerjee, Veejay Villafranca, and moderator Veeranganakumari Solanki. Organized by Sumit Bhattacharya and Abby MadriagaBringing together photographic practices from India and the Philippines, this conversation explores memory as something continuously constructed through place, identity, culture, and lived experience. 1:15-1:30 PM Break1:30 PM Track 03: Photographic Vision and the Experience of Place—From Personal Perception to Environmental ResponsibilityWith Morten Andersen and Marine Lanier. Moderated and organized by Cathrine Wessel and Julien GallandTwo interconnected questions about the photographer’s personal relationship to place: to what extent does a particular environment shape the photographer, and to what extent does the photographer shape our understanding of the landscape? 2:30-3:00 PM Break3:00 PM Track 04: Photography at 200: Who Writes the Archive?With Sagrario Berti and Costanza De Rogatis. Moderated and organized by Mariana MendozaOn the occasion of photography's bicentennial, researcher Sagrario Berti and artist Costanza De Rogatis examine the photographic archive as a contested site of power. Berti traces how a Latin American photographic collection was organized and interpreted differently under private and public ownership; De Rogatis reactivates archival images through Piel y manos, developed in collaboration with deafblind participants. Together, they ask who builds the archive, who is represented within it, and who gets to reinterpret it. 4:00-4:15 PM Break4:15 PM Track 05: After Visibility With Krista Svalbonas and Wiktoria Michalkiewicz. Moderated and organized by Katie Tackman and Emese MucsiThis conversation explores how curators and institutions can support artists beyond visibility, with a particular focus on American and Eastern European photography and the points of convergence within the regions’ intertwined histories—political transformations, conflicts, and forms of resistance—while preserving artistic autonomy and the complexity of individual practices. Through solidarity and cross-cultural dialogue, the conversation asks how locally rooted artistic practices can achieve meaningful and sustained international visibility, and what examples of this kind of advocacy, and artist management can inform responsible curatorial practice. 5:15 PM Closing Remarks Get Saturday Tickets About ICP’s Online Certificate Programs The International Center of Photography (ICP) offers Online One-Year Certificate Programs in Curatorial Practices in Photography and Writing and the Photographic Image. Designed for emerging curators, writers, and image makers, the programs offer live, interactive online classes, individual mentorship, professional critique, and connection with an international community of peers and leading practitioners. The 2027 program year begins in January. The application deadline for priority admission and scholarship consideration is October 18. Learn more about the program here. Header Image: Jennah Moon

Every creative field has its own mythology about longevity and decline: the idea that relevance has a shelf life, and that a career, however celebrated, will eventually wind down. This salon discussion, moderated by Steven Kasher and featuring Timothy Greenfield-Sanders proves the opposite. Greenfield-Sanders is a working photographer whose practice has spanned decades of shifting cultural ground. In this conversation, Greenfield-Sanders gets specific about method: how to keep finding the next subject, the next collaborator, the next reason the work still matters, decade after decade. Moderator Steven Kasher is a long-time gallerist, curator, and author who has recently published Memoir of a Collection (Abbeville Press). Pulling from his expertise in the art world, Kasher will dive into Greenfield-Sanders' successful career as photographer, providing a part master class and part case study that will appeal to anyone who wants to build a sustaining career in the field. Reinvention, not retirement, is what a multi-decade legacy looks like. Part master class and part case study, the evening is for anyone building a long creative career and wondering what actually sustains it. Reinvention, not retirement, is what a multi-decade legacy looks like. About the SpeakersTimothy Greenfield-Sanders is a portrait photographer and documentary filmmaker. Over the course of his four-decade career, he has photographed five U.S. presidents alongside generations of writers, artists, actors, and musicians. His work is in numerous museum collections including The Museum of Modern Art, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.Greenfield-Sanders has directed and produced 13 documentary films. His long-running series, for HBO, on identity includes The Black List, The Latino List, The Out List, The Trans List, The Women’s List, and most recently, The A List. For all of his film projects, he also photographs the interviewees. He won a Grammy Award for ‘Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart’ and two NAACP Image Awards, for The Black List and ‘Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am’Steven Kasher is a New York-based gallerist, curator, writer, and former artist specializing in photography and visual culture. He is the founder of Steven Kasher Gallery, established in 1995, where he has organized more than a hundred exhibitions. He has curated over thirty exhibitions focused on Civil Rights Movement photography, bringing renewed attention to the visual history of the era.Kasher is the author of several books, including The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68 (1996), and Memoir of a Collection: Finding Meaning Through Art (2026). Program6–6:30 PM Reception, drinks and canapés6:30–7:10 PM Salon-style dialogue on creativity and longevity7:10–7:30 PM Q&A7:30–8 PM Freeform discussion with speakers, social interaction, networking, view exhibition in program area. About the SeriesICP x ROAR, a new four-part salon series presented in partnership with ROAR Forward, the Hearst-backed business intelligence and community platform founded by author, photographer, and longevity expert Michael Clinton.The series will convene thought leaders, creative innovators, and industry experts for conversations that explore photography, creativity, entrepreneurship, legacy, and the evolving opportunities of longer lives.Learn More TicketsTickets are available to the general public at $85 per session and $65 for ICP Members. The four-session package is $289 for the general public and $240 for ICP Members. ICP Faculty receive 50% off the September 14 event and 25% off each of the remaining three events.The event is free for the ROAR community and ICP Trustees.

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. 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.Header image by Pierpaolo Mittica

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