Come into ICP to see Evidence of Existence: 2026 ICP Recent Graduates Exhibition, a powerful celebration of emerging photographic talent. This exhibition features work from students across three of ICP’s education programs, including the full-time, onsite One-Year Certificate Programs in Creative Practices and Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism, and the Teen Academy Imagemakers program. This work will be on show from Friday, May 15, until Monday, May 25. ICP's museum will be closed Sunday, May 17 and Tuesday, May 19.The exhibition is free with a suggested donation.

Join ICP on May 16 and 17 for Opening Weekend at Photoville. Photoville is a free, open-air photo festival focused on amplifying the voices of visual storytellers and creating distinctive and innovative exhibitions.Photoville 2026 will kick off at Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17 with Opening Weekend, a jam-packed two days of workshops, artist-led walking tours, and other activities for the whole family.Join ICP at Photoville to view our banner exhibition, ICE in Communities. ICE in Communities at Brooklyn Bridge ParkICE in Communities presents recent work by Jeenah Moon and Yuki Iwamura. Both are alumni of the ICP’s full-time program in Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program. Recently they have been documenting the tensions brought to community life by agents from ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Jeenah has been in Little Village, a densely populated neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side, photographing for Reuters. Yuki was in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, for the Associated Press.Curated by David Campany.ICP at THE POINT: The Shape of Our Stories at Baretto Point ParkICP at THE POINT: The Shape of Our Stories is an exhibition of photographs by students from ICP's partnership with THE POINT CDC. Based in the South Bronx and launched in 1997, the program is a year-round collaboration that teaches analog and digital photography, critical thinking, writing, and public speaking with the goal of fostering self-esteem, community development, and social change. The program includes weekly after-school classes for preteens, teens, and young adults, which take place in both physical and virtual classrooms/studios/darkrooms as well as a gallery space. This exhibition celebrates local voices honoring the people, places, and things that keep us uplifted in our everyday lives. Saturday, May 16Brooklyn Bridge Street Photography Walk11:00 AM–1:30 PM Hone your street photography skills with a hands-on photo walk across the Brooklyn Bridge! In this image making activity, we will meet at ICP on the Lower East Side and walk downtown across the Brooklyn Bridge, ending at Photoville in Emily Warren Roebling Plaza. While learning basic photographic techniques, participants will use whatever image making device they have (smartphone, iPad, camera, etc.) to document what stands out most to them. The photo walk will last approximately 2 hours and is led by ICP Faculty Hannah La Follette Ryan.Meet at ICP, 84 Ludlow Street to join. Image: Jeenah Moon for Reuters

Do you have questions about studying at ICP in New York City as an international student? Join ICP's International Student Q&A, with International Student Advisors! This info session will cover:What it's like being an international student at ICPAdmission requirements for international studentsForm I-20 & F-1 student visa applications (visa interviews) and your obligations while studying in the United StatesEmployment opportunities while on an F-1 student visa (work-study & post-completion OPT)We are currently accepting applications on a rolling admission basis for the Onsite One-Year Certificate Programs FALL 2026.Application will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, with decisions made as space permits.ICP’s On-Site One-Year Certificate Programs will begin in mid-August 2026 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. ZOOM LINK HereIf you have questions about the event, please contact [email protected]. Image by ICP One-Year Program alum Evelyn Sosa

Join our Admissions Team for an online info session to learn more about ICP’s onsite & online One-Year Certificate Programs, including academic structure, program formats, and tips for submitting a strong application. This session will cover all five of our certificate programs:Creative Practices (Onsite, NYC)Documentary Practice & Visual Journalism (Onsite, NYC)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 onsite program, we are currently accepting applications for Fall 2026 on a rolling admissions basis. Applications will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and decisions will be made as space permits. ICP’s onsite One-Year Certificate Programs begin in mid-August 2026 at our New York City campus.For the online program, the application is now 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 Gabrielle Ravet

Explore photobooks from the ICP Library while connecting with fellow photobook enthusiasts at ICP's Photobook Club. This session is designed exclusively for teens. Browse a curated selection of photobooks recommended by alumni of ICP Youth Programs featuring titles they wish they had discovered during their own teenage years. Then, drop in for a hands-on zine-making activity inspired by ICP's Photobook collection and HARD COPY NEW YORK exhibition.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 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

Join us at ICP for a conversation with the artist Brooke DiDonato around the release of her latest publication from Thames&Hudson, Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer. DiDonato will be joined in conversation by Sam Barzilay, creative director and cofounder of Photoville, followed by a signing in the ICP Shop.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 include access to ICP’s galleries. Courtesy of Thames & Hudson, © Brooke DiDonatoBrooke DiDonato, Underpass, 2017 About the BookBrooke DiDonato: Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer is a curated collection of Brooke DiDonato’s singularly surreal photography. Evoking feelings of nostalgia or disorientation, DiDonato’s work teeters between the familiar and the fantastical.Inspired by family homes in Ohio, her compositions challenge expectations of how space can be occupied. Torsos, legs, and arms contort into uncanny arrangements across sofas and ascend into attics. Ordinary surroundings often have a compelling presence—white picket fences, cornfields, deserts, and sidewalks become sites of unexpected psychological encounters, as figures are subsumed by their environments. Her pictures are playfully titled—Growing Upward Has Its Downside, What to Expect When You’re Expecting Nothing, and Went to Therapy but I’m Still in My Patterns—and poignantly touch upon contemporary anxieties and universal themes of love and loss.The most extensive collection of DiDonato’s work to date, this volume brings together her most well-known bodies of work, including A House is Not a Home, alongside new works published in print for the first time in this book.A short introduction by writer Eleanor Sutherland provides an overview of DiDonato’s practice, while an intimate conversation between Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and writer Eve Van Dyke and Brooke’s father, Bob DiDonato, offers a personal glimpse into her evolution as an artist. A one-of-a-kind photographic experience, DiDonato’s first monograph invites readers into her beguiling world, daring them to stare a little longer. About the ArtistBrooke DiDonato is a visual artist from Ohio based in New York City. Her photographs explore the surreal within the everyday, using color, composition, and gesture to transform familiar settings into psychologically charged spaces. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Berlin, and New York. Her client list includes Hermès, Apple, and Burberry. Follow her on Instagram: @brookedidonato. Image by Brooke DiDonato. Subscribe to My Only Fans, 2022.

This event is free with museum admission. Celebrate the start of ICP’s summer season with the opening of two landmark exhibitions that explore photography's wide-ranging impact and its ability to define contemporary life and culture. About the ExhibitionsYves Saint Laurent and PhotographyExploring the relationship Yves Saint Laurent forged between fashion and photography over four decades, this exhibition reveals how photography functioned not only as a tool for promotion but also as a creative force that helped define a legacy. Organized in collaboration with the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris and the Fondation Pierre Bergé–Yves Saint Laurent, it brings together more than 300 iconic photographs and archival objects.Photobooks USA 2000–25This exhibition examines the photobook as a tool for responding to the forces shaping contemporary life in the United States. With over than 50 titles, it presents a cross section of creators, themes, forms, and subjects, examining how artists have used the photobook to circulate their work in powerful and innovative ways. Image credit: © Scott Rudd for ICP