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84 Ludlow Entrance

Photography Lives Here

The International Center of Photography is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture. Through exhibitions, education programs, community outreach, and public programs, ICP offers an open forum for dialogue about the power of the image, and is a gathering place for the photography community to meet, exchange ideas, and support one another.

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Ethan Hill

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Ian Lewandowski

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Jon Henry

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Sarah Blesener

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The School at ICP was established in 1977 and services more than 3,500 adult and teen students annually.

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Upcoming Events

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ICP Family Art Hour (June 2026)
Explore ICP's exhibitions during this hands-on all ages family workshop. Discover new photographic techniques and how they connect with notions of family and community during an introductory tour of the current exhibitions, then join the hands-on activity.All ages 4 and up are welcome.Parents and guardians must remain with their children during the activity.
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ICP Teen Pride Night
ICP is excited to present our first-ever Teen Pride Night celebrating queer youth! Join us for this special teen-focused event complete with music, photography, and community-building. We’ll have temporary tattoos, camera-bedazzling, a photobooth by Human Flower Productions, a workshop by The Alice Austen House Museum, button making with The POINT CDC, and photo swag giveaways, as well as resources for queer teens and allies. We’d love to see you there! From 4–5 PM, we will be holding a sensory-friendly hour—come check out our event tables, meet other teens, and get your picture taken! The DJ will begin at 5 PM. Plus, bring your ICP Teen Pride Night 2026 official sticker over to AUTOPHOTO for one free vintage photobooth strip.This event is for teens aged 14-19. A school ID or other form of photo ID will be required to participate. Please be sure to RSVP prior to the event! Event Partners:Thank you to our partners providing giveaways:AUTOPHOTO: An analog photobooth museum and gallery. Analog photobooths were the first places in history where queer couples could take authentic photos together.Brooklyn Film CameraBLICK Art MaterialsExposure Therapy Photo Lab: Your Neighborhood Queer Owned Photo LabAnd more partners to be confirmedThank you to our food and beverage partners:Bliss Bomb—BlissBomb is an LGBTQ-owned snack and dessert business based in NYC. We help people make mini moments of joy with baked mini donuts. Our menu includes DE&I flavors celebrating diverse communities throughout the year.Cafe D'AvignonParty Bus BakerySugar Sweet Sunshine Bakery Image: Francesco Scavullo, Cat, Fashion Model, 1982, Gift of the Francesco Scavullo Trust, 2017 (2017.24.106) © International Center of Photography and Francesco Scavullo Trust Beneficiaries
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ICP Photobook Club: Beyond Photobooks USA 2000–25 Exhibition with malaika newsome
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
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Film Screening – Role Models
Join us at ICP for a special screening of Role Models, directed by ICP Alumni Salome Ogenfuss, which focuses on a group of photographers documenting the goings on outside NYC fashion shows. The screening will be followed by Q+A with Ogenfuss. 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 Ogenfuss
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Members Summer Day
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.
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Cameras and Coffee: Community Meet-Up (July 2026)
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
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ICP Family Art Hour (July 2026)
Explore ICP's exhibitions during this hands-on all ages family workshop. Discover new photographic techniques and how they connect with notions of family and community during an introductory tour of the current exhibitions, then join the hands-on activity.All ages 4 and up are welcome.Parents and guardians must remain with their children during the activity.

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ICP's museum, school, bookstore, and café are located at 84 Ludlow St. in New York's historic Lower East Side. 

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