Explore photobooks from the ICP Library and connect with fellow photobook enthusiasts at ICP's Photobook Club. This session of Photobook Club will showcase a wide curatorial selection of photobooks expanding beyond ICP’s exhibition, Photobooks USA, 2000–25, and hosted by malaika newsome, co-curator of the exhibitionICP library on the last Saturday of each month. This event is free to attend with RSVP. About The Speakermalaika newsome is the Curatorial Assistant at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She obtained her Masters in Art History and Archaeology from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts (IFA), focusing on African and African Diasporic Art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She has co-curated projects including the Zora Ilunga Reed’s Intimidation Tactics, the IFA’s Great Hall Exhibition installation by Maia Ruth Lee, Straight Lick as part of “Black Art Sessions” by Ebony Haynes, and Cultivating Collections: Vitreographs, Glass, Works by Black Artists, and Ceramics at Western Carolina University. She has also collaborated with the Atlanta History Center, the High Museum of Art, and MOCA GA. 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. Cover Image by Pasinee Pramunwong

This event is free with museum admission.Spend your morning with photobooks at ICP. Join malaika newsome co-curator of Photobooks USA 2000–25, for a special Photobook Club in the ICP library from 11 AM–1 PM, then join a guided tour of the exhibition starting at 1 PM. About the Exhibition⁠Photobooks USA 2000–25This exhibition invites viewers to explore how the medium has emerged as an important tool for artists responding to forces shaping contemporary life in the United States.⁠ About the SpeakerMalaika Newsome is the Curatorial Assistant at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She obtained her Masters in Art History and Archaeology from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts (IFA), focusing on African and African Diasporic Art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She has co-curated projects including the Zora Ilunga Reed’s Intimidation Tactics, the IFA’s Great Hall Exhibition installation by Maia Ruth Lee, Straight Lick as part of “Black Art Sessions” by Ebony Haynes, and Cultivating Collections: Vitreographs, Glass, Works by Black Artists, and Ceramics at Western Carolina University. She has also collaborated with the Atlanta History Center, the High Museum of Art, and MOCA GA. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided.For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Header image: Maximilian Ihlenburg for ICP⁠

Join us at ICP for a special screening of Role Models, directed by ICP Alumni Salome Oggenfuss, which focuses on a group of photographers documenting the goings on outside NYC fashion shows. The screening will be followed by Q+A with Oggenfuss. About the FilmRole Models is a film about everyday photo habitués who traverse the streets of New York and Paris in pursuit of models to snap pictures of outside fashion shows. They are frequenters of an outside, birdwatchers of female beauty, gleaners - picking up images at the margins, at the gates of patronised culture.Driven by adoration and loneliness, the men in the film aren't in it for the money, but are spurred on by the prospect of capturing transient interactions with the models to collect, in a hunt for images to take back home to their off-season hibernacula. In this image-coded world, they exist in ways that are equally social, para-social, and anti-social.The film is about longing in a culture of distantiating transparency and the mediated image, about the desire that got misplaced along the road somewhere. It’s a phenomenology of the outside: about those who don’t get to (and perhaps don’t even want to) exist on the inside—who don’t wear the badge of officialdom or the wristband of admittance.Operationally, it is a verité documentary that is turning itself upside down; a patchwork of characters; about men who look at women, men looking at women. It would not pass a reverse Bechtel Test. Retired after 30 years, one of the characters assesses his current passion like this: ‘They ask John Dillinger why do you rob banks? And he told them, ‘because that’s where the money is. And why do you photograph female models? Well, that’s where the beauty is.' About the Speakers: Salome Oggenfuss, born in Switzerland, is an artist working across disciplines. Her practice draws on years of experience working as a casting director specializing in discovering first-time performers for film, TV, and the stage. Recent works include collaborations with the Kitchen, the Dia Art Foundation, Montez Press Radio and Canal Projects, and her feature documentary film Role Models played at Anthology Film Archives, Now Instant Image Hall, SARA’s, and more. Oggenfuss lives in Brooklyn. Image courtesy of Salome Oggenfuss

ICP Members are invited to a vibrant summer morning as we celebrate our Summer 2026 exhibitions. Begin the day with breakfast at the ICP Café before stepping inside Yves Saint Laurent and Photography and Photobooks USA 2000–25, through exclusive tours led by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions. Continue behind the scenes with a special presentation of exhibition-related photobooks from the ICP Library collection with malaika newsome, Curatorial Assistant, then bring your own work to complimentary portfolio reviews with ICP Faculty. Portfolio reviews will focus on portraiture, street photography, fashion, commercial, and advertising work. As an added treat, enjoy 20% off at the ICP Shop during the day and pick up summer-inspired goodies like Martin Parr's Animals, or a kit to make your own cyanotype tote bag.Not a member yet? Join now! Robert Capa [Pool at Hotel St. Gellért, Budapest] 1948. The Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive, 2013.

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. Cameras and Coffee is held at ICP in our cafe the second Saturday of each month. This event is free to attend with RSVP. Image by Scott Rudd

Meet our Program Leads for ICP’s online One-Year Certificate Programs in Writing and the Photographic Image and Curatorial Practices in Photography led by Program Leads Alan Huck and Daria Tuminas. 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.For the online program, the applications for the program and Scholarships is currently open for the 2027 academic year, with a priority deadline of October 18. The program begins in mid-January 2027.About the Event Format This is an online event held via Zoom. Please register in advance for this free event. ZOOM LINK HereIf you have questions about the event, please contact [email protected] by Sara Konradi

Join us at ICP for a guided tour of Yves St. Laurent and Photography and Photobooks USA 2000–25 led by Associate Director of Exhibitions Sara Ickow. About the ExhibitionsYves Saint Laurent and PhotographyFeaturing more than 300 photographs and archival objects, Yves Saint Laurent and Photography traces the powerful relationship the designer forged between fashion and photography, revealing how images shaped his public identity and the legacy of his iconic fashion house.⁠⁠Photobooks USA 2000–25This exhibition invites viewers to explore how the medium has emerged as an important tool for artists responding to forces shaping contemporary life in the United States.⁠ About the SpeakerSara Ickow is the Associate Director of Exhibtions at the International Center of Photography and manages exhibitions and special projects for 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. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided.For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Header image: Maximilian Ihlenburg for ICP⁠