Discover everything you need to know about our 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 2026 are now open!Apply by March 1, 2026 for priority consideration and merit-based scholarship opportunities.ICP’s On-Site One-Year Certificate Programs will begin in mid-August 2026 at our New York City campus.*For Online One-Year Certificate Programs, we are currently accepting applications on a rolling basis. Application will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, with decisions made as space permits. The online One-Year Certificate programs start Mid-January, 2026About 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 Matthew Septimus

Join us at ICP for the final installment of the fall Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer lectures series featuring Philip Cheung. Looking closely at the breadth of his celebrated work, from recent coverage of the war in Ukraine and the Southern California wildfires to commissioned portraits within the fashion and film industries, Cheung will be in conversation with ICP's Creative Director David Campany.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. About the SeriesICP 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 SpeakersPhilip Cheung is a photographer based in Los Angeles. His commissioned and personal work covers a range of projects, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Los Angeles wildfires, the history of Chinese railroad workers in America, and the portraiture of celebrities and public figures.His photographs have been exhibited at the SFO Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Pinchuk Art Centre. He was shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize in 2018 and his work is held in the collections of Harvard Art Museums, Akkasah, Center for Photography at New York University - Abu Dhabi, and the Canadian War Museum.David Campany is Creative Director of the International Center of Photography, New York. He has worked worldwide with institutions including MoMA New York, Tate, Whitechapel Gallery London, Centre Pompidou, Le Bal Paris, ICP New York, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Photographer’s Gallery London, ParisPhoto, PhotoLondon, The National Portrait Gallery London, Aperture, Steidl, MIT Press, Thames & Hudson, MACK and Frieze. Image by Philip Cheung

Don’t miss the special opportunity to hear directly from Program Leads Alan Huck and Daria Tuminas in this online info session about ICP’s One-Year Certificate Programs in Writing and the Photographic Image and Curatorial Practices in Photography. They will provide 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. Be part of the inaugural year of these exciting new programs and join the growing ICP community.For the Online One-Year Certificate Programs, we are currently accepting applications on a rolling basis. Applications are reviewed case by case, with decisions made as space permits. The programs begin in mid-January 2026.About the Event FormatThis is an online event held via Zoom. If you have questions, please contact: [email protected]. Image © Jeenah Moon

This event is free with museum admission.Join us for a guided walking tour of the exhibitions Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies, and Sergio Larrain: Wanderings, led by a museum educator. About the ExhibitionsGraciela Iturbide: Serious PlayThe first ever retrospective of Iturbide’s work in New York City. This landmark exhibition, organized in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE and curated by Carlos Gollonet, Chief Curator of Photography at Fundación MAPFRE, features nearly 200 photographs spanning five decades of her groundbreaking career.Iturbide learned photography under renowned Mexican modernist Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Throughout her career, Iturbide traveled extensively throughout Mexico–and beyond–turning her attention to communal life, indigenous communities, and the interactions between nature and culture.Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasiesThe exhibition grapples with the concept of pregnancy through constructed self-portraits, landscapes and still-lifes—blurring the line between documentary and performance. Green probes the conventional expectations and representational tropes of motherhood, while also creating an expanded space for considering the experience of pregnancy in America.Curated by Guest Curator Elisabeth Sherman, Instead, I spin fantasies brings together dozens of new works, including photographs printed using the historical technologies of albumen and lumen printing processes, along with a site-specific vinyl installation that utilizes the architecture of ICP’s third floor galleries.Sergio Larrain: WanderingsAn exhibition consisting of prints drawn entirely from the Magnum Photos archive. Curated by Agnès Sire, former Director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, the exhibition primarily highlights the work Larrain made during the first twenty years of his career, in cities such as Valparaíso, Santiago, Paris and London.Wanderings provides a new perspective on Larrain’s inventive and humanist photography that for decades has remained little seen and seldom exhibited, looking at both the material and spiritual drama of rural and urban life while also charting the subtle evolution of Larrain’s style. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Image © Gabrielle Ravet

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 2026 are now open!Apply by March 1, 2026 for priority consideration and merit-based scholarship opportunities.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] by ICP alum Nina Tanujaya (CP '23)

Join us for an online tour of the International Center of Photography's Lower East Side educational facilities, including studio, state-of-the-art labs and darkrooms, and more. This event will be held via Zoom.During the session, you will receive a full virtual tour led by our school facilities manager. You will have the opportunity to ask questions about our facilities and learn more about what it’s like to be a student at ICP.Applications for Fall 2026 are now open!Apply by March 1, 2026 for priority consideration and merit-based scholarship opportunities.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. If you have questions about the event, please contact [email protected] by Sara KonradiBotón Estilizado .hs-cta-trigger-button { display: inline-block; padding: 0.9375rem 1.5625rem; cursor: pointer; transition: 200ms ease; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; border: none; font-family: "publico Headline Roman Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.22; color: #fff; border: 1px solid #121212; background-color: #121212; } .hs-cta-trigger-button:hover { background-color: #333; /* Cambio de color de fondo al pasar el mouse */ border-color: #fff; /* Cambio de color del borde al pasar el mouse */ }

Since 2012, ICP’s annual Spotlights Benefit has celebrated women in the visual arts, particularly those working in photography and film. Through engaging and intimate conversations addressing critical contemporary issues, this benefit highlights diverse voices and generates essential funding for ICP's education and exhibition programs.This year, we are proud to honor the legendary photographer Graciela Iturbide, whose profound and poetic work has shaped the way we see the world. Graciela will be in conversation with Karla Martínez de Salas, Editor in Chief of Vogue Mexico and Latin America. The benefit will coincide with the opening of her much-anticipated retrospective at ICP this fall.Graciela Iturbide is known for her black-and-white images of the local communities in her native Mexico. In 1979, she published Juchitán de las Mujeres, a book of photographs that inspired her lifelong support of feminist causes. Iturbide has photographed in the Sonoran Desert and Juchitán de Zaragoza (Mexico), as well as in Cuba, Panama, India, Argentina, and the United States. Born in 1942 in Mexico City, Mexico, she studied film at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1969, where she was influenced by the acclaimed Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. She has received several awards, including the Hasselblad and the William Klein Award. This year, she received the Premio Princesa de Asturias 2025.For any inquiries, please reach out to [email protected]. Past EventsICP Spotlights 2024: Kathy RyanICP Spotlights 2022: Zanele MuholiCP Spotlights 2021: Catherie OpieICP Spotlights 2020: Nadia Hallgren, Deana Lawson, Lindsay Peoples WagnerICP Spotlights 2018: Mickalene ThomasICP Spotlights 2017: Lynsey AddarioICP Spotlights 2016 (November): Laurie SimmonsICP Spotlights 2016 (January): Lauren GreenfieldICP Spotlights 2015: Carrie Mae WeemsICP Spotlights 2014: Shirin NeshatICP Spotlights 2013: Fashion PhotographyICP Spotlights 2012: Creating a Better World Image of Graciela Iturbide, Mujer ángel, Desierto de Sonora, México, 1979.