Join ICP Admissions Team for a Virtual Q&A Session! Learn more about ICP’s Online One-Year Certificate Programs and get insights into what makes a successful application. Programs include: The programs include:Curatorial Practice in PhotographyWriting and the Photographic ImageDocumentary Practice: Visual StorytellingIn this session, you’ll get an overview of the curriculum, program structure, admissions process, and application steps. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions directly to the Admissions Team.The deadline for admission and merit scholarship consideration for ICP’s Online One-Year Certificate Programs has been extended to Sunday, October 26 at 11:59 PM EST.About the Event FormatThis is an online event held via Zoom. If you have questions, please contact: [email protected]. Image © Gabrielle Ravet for ICP

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

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 program takes place every month and is free to attend with RSVP.This month’s Photobook Club is hosted by Martha Naranjo Sandoval, a visual artist, photographer, cataloger, and the founder and director of the editorial project Matarile Ediciones. About Martha Naranjo SandovalMartha Naranjo Sandoval is a Brooklyn-based visual artist, photographer, publisher, and cataloger from Mexico City. Her work focuses on the family album as means of creating community around photography.In 2023 she presented the solo exhibition The Stench of Orange Blossoms at Miriam Gallery, and in 2024, Flowering Wound at Baxter Street Camera Club of New York as part of their Artist-In-Residency program. Her monograph Small Death, published by MACK this year, was shortlisted for the 2025 Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook First PhotoBook Award. She is the founder and director of the editorial project Matarile Ediciones, which publishes work by artists who are immigrants or part of a recent diaspora. She also works at Dashwood Books, manages the ICP library, and teaches zine and photobook classes in multiple institutions.About ICP LibraryICP’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. Image by Martha Naranjo Sandoval

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 us at ICP for the first installment of Educator’s Open House, welcoming educators for an interactive day exploring ICP Museum’s educational opportunities, exhibition tours, hands-on workshops designed for class visits, and opportunities to connect with other educators.This is the perfect opportunity to explore ICP and discover new educational possibilities for your classroom.Come celebrate with us, expand your skills, and find inspiration alongside our community of lifelong learners and photographers!

A collection of Sally Stein's vital writings on photography has been long overdue. Close-ups from Afar is a landmark collection of texts showcasing a sharpness of mind and eye over the last few decades that has challenged received wisdom and championed overlooked work. Gathered together for the first time, this anthology allows us to appreciate the range and depth of Stein's thought and her commitment to new models of thinking about photography's past and present. Stein will be in conversation with David Campany, ICP's Creative Director and long-time admirer of Stein's writing. The conversation is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side and online.Purchase Close-ups from Afar: Selected Short and Longer Essays on Social Uses of Photography (MACK, $35) in ICP’s shop.Dr. Sally Stein, Professor Emerita, Department of Art History, UC Irvine, is an independent scholar based in Los Angeles who continues to research and write about 20thcentury photography in the U.S. and its relation to broader questions of culture and society. She has written about New Deal FSA photographers—particularly Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano—as well as the contested image of FDR. She also has written numerous essays about popular mass media – Ladies Home Journal, Life and Look – along with continuing her study of the various aspects of the rise of color photography. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions asconsumers and citizens.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.

We live in two image worlds, the one we think we know and the one that exists. The former is organized by truth, fact and information - a society built upon the premise that image=evidence. The new image world has the ability to conjure realness untethered from reality, a place where a compelling image matters more than any indexical truth and where images have the potential to usher in new realities. Amongst the chaos, we can sense that the image world operates differently—and yet it’s unclear exactly how. This one-day salon will explore what contemporary photography is today and what we want it to be. Alongside host Gem Fletcher, guest speakers, including Abdul Kircher, Farah Al Qasimi, Charlie Engman, Sinna Nasseri, Gideon Jacobs and more, will discuss where we stand and propose ideas about what comes next. The day will conclude with a conversation with Kathy Ryan, artist, curator, educator and former Director of Photography for The New York Times Magazine. 11 AM, ICP Library Session 1: On Contemporary Art What is contemporary art today? And what do we want it to be? What we understand an image to be is becoming completely reimagined. As photography slowly loses its utility value as a communication tool, it has the opportunity to be a slippery, strange and miraculous medium of possibilities. From where we stand today, what is the work of art? And what role does photography play in those ideas and gestures? Gem Fletcher is joined by artists Farah Al Qasimi, Charlie Engman and Gideon Jacobs. 1:00 PM, ICP Library Session 2: On Portraiture In a world where there are more cameras than people, what role does portraiture play? Today, we all work for the image matrix. Selfies dominate the infinite scroll, and anyone with a phone shapes representation. Amongst these now dominant modes of self-expression, what is the role of portraiture? How do you make a portrait yours? And when working with people, how do you recognise where there might be potential for a photograph? Gem Fletcher is joined by Caroline Tompkins, Alexander Coggin and Avion Pearce. 3:00 PM, ICP Library Session 3: On Documentary Photography What is a documentary photograph today? And what do we want it to be? Amongst the doom and upheaval that defines life in the 2020s, from political extremism and war, the dizzying technological domination and the profound shifts in perception and attention, the role of documentary photography has never felt so consequential. Amongst this chaos, the protocols of the genre are shifting and new questions are emerging: What happens to documentary photography if we no longer trust in images? How is the changing media landscape impacting how images function? And can new forms of the medium emerge that adequately express the strange, unmappable shape of our present? Gem Fletcher is joined by artists Abdul Kircher, Rhiannon Adam and Sinna Nasseri. 4:30 PM, ICP Library Session 4: On Future Storytelling What is the role of a photographer in today's chaotic media landscape? For three decades, Kathy Ryan, the longtime director of photography at The New York Times Magazine, pioneered her own vision for visual storytelling through masterful commissioning, cross-assignment, blurring boundaries between genres and creating space for photography to be interpretive and elaborate, a powerful voice unto itself. Now, as she enters a new era of her career as an artist, curator and educator, Kathy talks to Gem Fletcher about the future of storytelling and the role of the photographer in preserving history, challenging misinformation, and safeguarding the integrity of our shared narratives. $5 tickets are available and do not include admission to ICP’s museum. Those with museum admission are welcome to join the salon if space is available. Seating is first come, first served, with limited standing room available. About The Messy Truth Podcast Dedicated to the world of contemporary photography, The Messy Truth podcast, hosted by Gem Fletcher features exclusive interviews with emerging and leading artists, curators, editors and critics, exploring the shifting landscape of visual culture and what it means to be a photographer today. Farah Al Qasimi, The Amazon Department Store, 2020