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 Debmalya 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 November 1st. 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.

Join our Admissions Team for an online info session to learn more about ICP’s online One-Year Certificate Programs, including academic structure, program formats, and tips for submitting a strong application. This session will cover all three of our online certificate programs:Documentary Practice: Visual Storytelling (Online)Curatorial Practice in Photography (Online)Writing and the Photographic Image (Online)In this session, you will receive an overview of key admission deadlines, the academic timeline, program structure, tuition, and scholarship opportunities. You’ll also gain insight into what the Admissions Committee looks for in successful applicants and have the chance to ask questions directly to the Admissions Team.For the Online One-Year Certificate Program, the application deadline for admission and scholarship consideration has been extended to November 1, 2026. ICP’s Online One-Year Certificate Programs begin in mid-January 2027.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 Sara Konradi

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. 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

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