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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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ICP Holiday Market
Join us for our annual ICP Holiday Market! Finish your holiday shopping with local vendors and have your portrait made by legendary photographer Polo Silk while visiting our exhibitions: Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies, and Sergio Larrain: Wanderings. Polo Silk's pop-up portrait studio will take place in ICP galleries during 12-1:30 PM. Limited free RSVPs are available here on a first come, first serve basis. Meet The VendorsAlicja Zakpear wareChinatown Basketball Clubsequence giftshopTenshin Flames The ICP Holiday Market will take place in the ICP Café from 10:30 AM - 3 PM. No admission required. About Polo SilkFor over 30 years Selwhyn Sthaddeus “Polo Silk” Terrell has used his camera to capture New Orleans nightlife, hip hop and bounce culture, Mardi Gras Indian traditions, and Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs. His work is an intimate record of Black New Orleanians--their music and clothing, their joy and humor, and their ways of coming together to celebrate and grieve.His practice has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Antenna in 2017 (New Orleans); the New Orleans Jazz Museum in 2022; the New Orleans Museum of Art in 2022; Sibyl Gallery in 2025 (New Orleans); in a long term installation at the legendary historic Dew Drop Inn (New Orleans); and in a permanent installation at the Sportsman's Corner Bar and Daiquiri Shop ongoing since 2015 (New Orleans). His photographs have been featured in group exhibitions such as Where They At: New Orleans Bounce and Hip Hop at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans); Legacy of Central City at the Tulane University Small Center for Collaborative Design (New Orleans); Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers at the New Orleans Museum of Art; Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center; and Southern Democratic curated by Phillip March Jones at the Carnegie Museum of Art for the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial in Cincinnati. Polo Silk's practice has been featured in The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap published in 2021 by the National Museum of African American History and Culture; The Black Utopia: Volume 1; New Orleans & the World: 1718-2018 Tricentennial Anthology; Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice by Krista Thompson published in 2015 by Duke University Press; Cashew Co. Journal Volume 2: New Orleans; Documenting the Nameplate published in 2022 by Clarkson Potter; Artforum, and Burnaway among others. He has published two books of his photography, Pop That Thang and Polo Silk Presents: Cash Money Records from the '99-2000. He collaborated with Foot Locker and Reebok on the 3:AM Series custom shoes and apparel, with Jordan Brand on the Stunting + Shining Campaign for the 2017 NBA All Stars Game, with Paper Planes Apparel on the #WhereImFrom NOLA Capsule Collection, and on the Street Corner campaign for Denim Tears in 2025. His photographs can be found in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Historic New Orleans Collection. Image credits: © Jenna Bascom for ICP, © Polo Silk
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Cameras and Coffee: Community Meet-Up (December 2025)
Connect with ICP's community during our monthly Cameras and Coffee social meet-up for photographers, collectors, and camera enthusiasts! During the event, grab a Deadbeat coffee and pastries, available in the ICP café. During this special iteration of Cameras and Coffee, enjoy grab freshly brewed coffee by Deadbeat Club while shopping handcrafted goods from local vendors at our annual ICP Holiday Market. Cameras and Coffee is held at ICP the second Saturday of each month. The event is free to attend with RSVP. Image by Scott Rudd
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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, 2026.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 Matthew Septimus
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“Stranger Fruit” In Conversation – Jon Henry & Zora J Murff
Join ICP online for a conversation between artists and educators Jon Henry and Zora J Murff around Henry’s exhibition Stranger Fruit, on view through January 12.This discussion will take place online via Zoom. After registering for this event, you will be sent a Zoom link in advance of the talk to view the conversation. About the ExhibitionJon Henry’s Stranger Fruit is a response to the epidemic of police killings of Black men—his answer to the question “Who is next? Me? My brother? My friends? How do we protect these men?”For several years, Henry traveled around the United States photographing Black mothers holding their sons in poses reminiscent of Renaissance paintings of the Virgin Mary cradling Jesus following the crucifixion, as well as the mothers alone.The project also includes writing by the mothers expressing their understanding that while they have not lost their sons, it is an ever-present possibility. Portrayed alone, the portraits reflect that potential absence and how, as Henry puts it, when “the protesters have gone home and the news cameras gone, it is the mother left. Left to mourn, to survive.”Stranger Fruit was published as a book in 2022 and has been previously exhibited, but for this installation Henry went back into his archives, pulling together documents, maps, and other ephemera that trace the creation of the project. A generous act of transparency, this presentation allows visitors to see the creative and administrative work that goes into developing a long-term project. About the ArtistsJon Henry is a visual artist working with photography and text, from Queens NY (resides in Brooklyn). His work reflects on family, sociopolitical issues, grief, trauma and healing within the African American community. His work has been published both nationally and internationally and exhibited in numerous galleries including Aperture Foundation, Smack Mellon, and BRIC among others. Known foremost for the cultural activism in his work, his projects include studies of athletes from different sports and their representations.He was recently named one of The 30 New and Emerging Photographers for 2022, TIME Magazine NEXT100 for 2021. Included in the Inaugural 2021 Silver List. He recently was awarded the Arnold Newman Grant for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture in 2020, an En Foco Fellow, one of LensCulture's Emerging Artists and has also won the Film Photo Prize for Continuing Film Project sponsored by Kodak.He currently serves as a faculty member at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. Zora J Murff is an artist and educator based in Oregon. Other facts about him include: he practices art to support consciousness-raising and to engage in intellectual struggle. The industry compatible objects he makes often–but not always–relate to the violent paradoxes and perils created by an imperial paradigm. The most influential book he read last year was Joy James’ In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love. An exhibition of his industry compatible objects, RACE/HUSTLE, was curated by his friend and accomplice, Terence Washington. The show is on display at MASS MoCA and runs through November 2026. Jon Henry, Untitled #36, North Minneapolis, MN © Jon Henry
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International Student Q&A—Onsite One-Year Certificate Programs
Do you have questions about studying at ICP 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)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]. Image by ICP One-Year Program alum Evelyn Sosa
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ICP Community Maker’s Market
Join us for our annual ICP Community Maker’s Market!Visit ICP during Late Night for the ICP Community Maker’s Market to shop homemade prints, goods, and items from ICP’s incredible community including students, faculty, alumni, and staff. This year's market includes items from the ICP community members listed below: Instante, photographic jewelryNYC Street Dailies playing cards created by Amy TouchetteIvana J. Jarmon PhotographyChiara Gabellini with Silver-gelatin handprints and C-prints. Made between 2019-2025. Joana ToroMyrto TzimaThe ticket included access to our exhibitions: Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies, and Sergio Larrain: Wanderings. Image by Asher Selle.

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