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V Magazine Launch - V157: GABBRIETTE
Join us at ICP for the launch of V Magazine issue 157 with cover star Gabbriette and photographer Steven Klein.The first 100 RSVPs are guaranteed entry. All guests will need to bring their copy of V157 starring Gabbriette or purchase a copy of the issue on location at the event in order to have their issue signed. Due to limited capacity, RSVPs for this event will close on November 19, 2025.Copies of the issue will be available for purchase on a first come, first serve basis. About the IssueGabbriette stars in a film noir fantasy for V Magazine’s new V157 Winter 2025 Issue—photographed by Steven Klein and styled by Patti Wilson!What does modern glamour look like today? It’s dangerous, decadent, daring. In a word: Gabbriette. She’s the name on everyone’s lips—and everyone’s Instagram feed, with a face you simply can’t scroll past. Shot by Steven Klein and styled by Patti Wilson in Saint Laurent’s latest collection with makeup artist Kabuki transforming the star in an old-Hollywood cinema siren with MAC Cosmetics, Gabbriette—the raven of this generation’s supermodel flock—is transported into a film noir fantasy on the cover of V157.For our cover story, the musician-turned-model-turned-scream-queen-in-the-making sat down with burlesque icon Dita Von Teese to discuss the timeless allure of old Hollywood, and how both women channel the unapologetic, femme-fatale energy of the Golden Age’s most notable heroines. About V MagazineV is a magazine about fashion with a capital F and all the things that go with it: music, film, art, beauty, architecture…you name it. Large-format, visually driven, international in scope, and collaborative in spirit, V was launched in 1999, becoming a bi-monthly, supersized lifestyle brand that covers the next wave in pop culture as captured by the industry’s most important photographers. Since our debut issue, V has collaborated with all-star talents like Inez & Vinoodh, Nick Knight, Steven Klein, Mert and Marcus, Mario Sorrenti, Karl Lagerfeld, Hedi Slimane, and many more to bring its sophisticated, international audience an insider’s view of cultural stories before they’re news anywhere else.Before V was put into print, we thought of it this way: Imagine a wall of forty-four televisions, each tuned to a different station. Today you would need a wall of 250 televisions, but it’s still a good way to think of the insane and unpredictable mix of people, places, and things that V celebrates in its pages. V is a place where uptown meets downtown, celebrities mingle with total unknowns and high art converses with underground culture.Chic, wacky, fun, fabulous…in a letter: V! Image by Steven Klein
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Photobook Club: Naima Green and Geraldine Barón
Explore photobooks from the ICP Library and connect with fellow photobook enthusiasts at ICP's Photobook Club. Each month, browse hand-picked selections from special guests and ICP community members. This month, explore selections from artists Geraldine Barón and Naima Green whose exhibition Instead, I spin fantasies, is on view through January 12. Both Barón and Green will be present at Photobook Club from 11 AM - 12 PM for informal browsing and conversation. Following the community meet-up, join us in the ICP galleries at 3 PM for a special presentation of Rehearsal for a Family, a reading, performance, and exhibition series that reimagines notions of kinship, family, and belonging. About the speakers Geraldine Barón is an Argentine writer, artist, and filmmaker living and working between New York City and Buenos Aires. Her practice spans photography, video, writing, and curation, and explores the construct of family as a field of study, focusing on the relationships between image and text, rehearsal and performance. Her process is open and reciprocal: the act of making work becomes inseparable from the act of making family itself. For the past eighteen years, Geraldine has been working on an ongoing series titled Rehearsal for a Family, comprising photographs and texts that explore family-making and its constitutive elements of intimacy, queerness, language, labor, and storytelling. Her writing traverses the material and porous expanse between Spanish and English, moving through the spaces of translation, placelessness, and belonging. Since 2023, she has hosted a bilingual series of readings, performances, and exhibitions—also titled Rehearsal for a Family. Geraldine holds a BA in Comparative Literature and French & Francophone Studies from UCLA, and an MFA in Film Directing and Screenwriting from Columbia University. She is an alumna of the Artists Program at the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas and the Cinema Lab at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Her photography has been exhibited in both the U.S. and Argentina, and her writing has appeared in publications such as A Magazine Curated By. Her films have screened at festivals internationally, and her film Hotel Y received Best Director Award from INCAA. She is currently working on a film drawing from her casting practice and investigating the relationship between performance, identity, and reproductive labor.Naima Green is an artist and educator who pictures individuals and communities to document their vibrant relationships to place and pleasure. She engages with various photographic forms, sound, and experimental film. Throughout her collaborative practice, Green accesses and prioritizes the nature of intimacy, safety, and self-recognition. Often working in lush and watery environments, she presents windows into multidimensional experiences of seawater and its pathways: beauty, buoyancy, overwhelm, and submersion. Oral and written histories are critical to her process; by synthesizing archival research with outreach and conversation with current sitters, she frames picture-making as a continuum and her still images as kinetic, living histories. Naima Green, If I didn’t let my mind run too far ahead, I felt completely happy, 2024 ©Naima Green
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Fall 2025 Exhibitions Tour
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
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Instead, I spin fantasies x Rehearsal for a Family
An afternoon of readings centered on desire and parenthood, love and loss, family and intimacy. Join us in Naima Green’s exhibition Instead, I spin fantasies with Geraldine Barón, Sylvia Gorelick, and Naima Green for a special presentation of Rehearsal for a Family: a reading, performance, and exhibition series that reimagines notions of kinship, family, and belonging.Before the program, explore a selection of books inspired by the exhibition from Naima Green and Geraldine Barón in the ICP library during ICP Photobook Club.Readers for this program include:Asiya WadudAngel NafisDesiree C. BaileyGauri AwasthiNaima GreenGeraldine Barón* Incantations read by Sylvia GorelickAbout Rehearsal for a FamilyRehearsal for a Family is a reading, performance, and exhibition series that reimagines notions of kinship, family, and belonging. Assembling artists, poets, playwrights, dancers, parents, and children within domestic and cultural spaces between New York City and Buenos Aires, the series invites participants to share new or in-progress work, in both English and Spanish. This series enacts a practice of assembly and queer family-making, politicizing the often-invisible and historically feminized space of the home. In an ongoing commitment to rehearsing transformative constellations of care, family, and poetics, this series gets to the heart of social poiesis, asking: how can we assemble differently amid the ongoing crises, genocides, and atrocities of late capitalism? How might we relate anew and imagine making life otherwise?Rehearsal for a Family is situated in the feminist tradition of breaking down the divide between private and public, putting a new sociality into practice—one that honors the expansive creative force of making life, making art, and making community. In this spirit, the host or visiting artist at each reading prepares a communal meal to provide care and foster connection between all who are gathered.Co-organized by Geraldine Barón and Sylvia Gorelick, the reading series has featured artists and collaborators including Alexis Almeida, Mirene Arsanios, Gauri Awasthi, Lorenzo Bueno, Corina Copp, Denise Groesman, Benjamin Krusling, Laura Henriksen, Agostina Luz Lopez, Lucía Reissig, Florencia Vecino, and Morgan Võ, Simone White, Lila Zemborain, among others.Through collective praxis, rehearsal, and determined nonarrival, Rehearsal for a Family works to undermine the capitalist structures that rely on the exploitation of social reproductive labor. The series privileges the ephemeral, the domestic, the marginal, the daily, the unfinished, the small, the queer, the precise material that nurtures desire and makes life, again and again.About the SpeakersGeraldine Barón is an Argentine writer, artist, and filmmaker living and working between New York City and Buenos Aires. Her practice spans photography, video, writing, and curation, and explores the construct of family as a field of study, focusing on the relationships between image and text, rehearsal and performance. Her process is open and reciprocal: the act of making work becomes inseparable from the act of making family itself. For the past eighteen years, Geraldine has been working on an ongoing series titled Rehearsal for a Family, comprising photographs and texts that explore family-making and its constitutive elements of intimacy, queerness, language, labor, and storytelling. Her writing traverses the material and porous expanse between Spanish and English, moving through the spaces of translation, placelessness, and belonging. Since 2023, she has hosted a bilingual series of readings, performances, and exhibitions—also titled Rehearsal for a Family. Geraldine holds a BA in Comparative Literature and French & Francophone Studies from UCLA, and an MFA in Film Directing and Screenwriting from Columbia University. She is an alumna of the Artists Program at the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas and the Cinema Lab at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Her photography has been exhibited in both the U.S. and Argentina, and her writing has appeared in publications such as A Magazine Curated By. Her films have screened at festivals internationally, and her film Hotel Y received Best Director Award from INCAA. She is currently working on a film drawing from her casting practice and investigating the relationship between performance, identity, and reproductive labor.Sylvia Gorelick is a poet, translator, performer, and educator living in New York City, their hometown. Sylvia holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from NYU and currently teaches Media Studies at Fordham University. Sylvia’s scholarly work focuses on queer and feminist intimacies among artists in the US, Cuba, and France. They have translated several books from French including The Book by Stéphane Mallarmé (Exact Change, 2018) and are currently translating the poetry of Cuban activist and writer Lourdes Casal from Spanish, with a poem translation forthcoming in Fence. Sylvia’s writing has appeared in (among others) The Poetry Project Newsletter, the tiny, Venti, What a Time to be Alive, and The Brooklyn Rail, where they curated a reading for the newspaper’s Radical Poetry Reading series in 2022. Their most recent chapbook, Vampire Poem, came out from Cul-de-sac of Blood in 2024, and their work has been published in anthologies and exhibition catalogues including Dispersed Holdings’ Speed of Resin (2019) and the Drawing Center’s Jackson Mac Low: Lines—Letters—Words (2017). In 2024, Sylvia taught a series of poetry workshops for public school educators at the Museum of the City of New York titled Poetry as Pedagogy. Sylvia has performed in plays by Richard Maxwell (2024-25) and Corina Copp (2025), and appeared in the short film Byron and Shelley: Illuminati Detectives directed by Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey in 2022. Sylvia is currently working on a long poem about queer love letters, grief, and poetry’s urban geographies.Naima Green is an artist and educator who pictures individuals and communities to document their vibrant relationships to place and pleasure. She engages with various photographic forms, sound, and experimental film. Throughout her collaborative practice, Green accesses and prioritizes the nature of intimacy, safety, and self-recognition. Often working in lush and watery environments, she presents windows into multidimensional experiences of seawater and its pathways: beauty, buoyancy, overwhelm, and submersion. Oral and written histories are critical to her process; by synthesizing archival research with outreach and conversation with current sitters, she frames picture-making as a continuum and her still images as kinetic, living histories.
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Photo credit; Gabrielle Ravet 
Fall 2025 Exhibitions Tour
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
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Admissions Team Q&A—One-Year Certificate Programs
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
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The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series with Philip Cheung and David Campany
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 SeriesThe 2025-2026 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 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

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